PLSS: Public Land Survey System. A reference scheme for recording property ownership by section, township, range, and aliquot parts (half or quarter sections) in the United States.
PLSS
Acronym for Public Land Survey System. The description of the location of land in the United States using a survey system established by the federal government in 1785.
Public Land Survey System (PLSS) A rectangular system of land surveys. The land was surveyed and marked by durable monuments into an orderly arrangement of squares, according to rigidly standardized directions from the government.
The final grid system discussed here is the public land survey system (PLSS). Although the geographic, UTM, state plane, and PLSS coordinate systems are the most common, there are other coordinate systems in use today.
Public Land Survey System (PLSS) - Township, range, and section lines
Boundaries - State, county, city, and other national and State lands such as forests and parks
Transportation - Roads and trails, railroads, pipelines and transmission lines ...
The initial coordinate values for the section corners of the PLSS were only available from the U.S. Geological Survey 1:62 500 scale map sheets. These corners represent the coordinate control for other digital data themes.
Public Land Survey System (PLSS) (including township, range, and section information); (5) hypsography, including contours and supplemental spot elevation; (6) vegetative surface cover, including woods, scrubs, orchards, vineyards, ...
Public Land Survey System (PLSS) The survey system used in the original land survey conducted by the U.S. Government in order to transfer title of federally owned land.
square, forty acre parcels are the standard building block for PLSS areas (areas surveyed under the Public Land Survey System) of the Midwest, and Western United States, and much of Canada ...
In the states that have been subdivided as per the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), the BLM Cadastral Surveys are carried out in accordance with said system.
Download the file sections.zip to your removable drive. This contains two shapefiles containing Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data for the sections covering Pack Forest.
Unzip the zipfile.
 See also: Survey, GIS, Information, Section, Location
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