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Tags
ranges, landgrants, boundaries, planningCadastre, townships, TRS, grids, PLSS, sections, Public Land Survey System, PLS, California
To display and analyze township, range, and sections as contained in the Public Land Survey System grid.
This layer differs from the standard Public Land Survey System layer in that all landgrants and other areas excluded from the section survey process are filled in (with protracted data). The primary purpose of this is to facilitate the georeferencing of phenomena that are spatially referenced by meridian, township, range, and section. Though these sections do not legally exist, field personnel will interpolate to determine what the section would be if there were legally a section there. This is common with fire starts as reported by the California Department of Forestry (CDF). In fact, all of the work to fill in these excluded areas was completed by CDF to help georeference fire starts so they could be analyzed with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology. This layer is based on 1:100,000-scale (100K) source data. Caution should be used when attempting to use it with more detailed sources such as 1:24,000-scale (24K) data. For the most current and detailed PLSS data, users should refer to BLM's Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB). This layer depicts the township, range and sections contained in the Public Land Survey System grid for the State of California. Townships are roughly six miles square, and are numbered north and south from an established baseline. Likewise, ranges are numbered east and west from an established meridian. California uses three baseline/meridians, these being Humboldt, Mt. Diablo, and San Bernardino, abbreviated H, M, and S Meridian, township, range, and section values are combined in the redefined item MTRS to facilitate relates from/to other tables.
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Extent
| West | -124.506055 | East | -113.498654 |
| North | 42.068938 | South | 32.423519 |
Converted to California Teale Albers NAD83 by the California Department of Fish and Game. Coordinate values also converted to NAD83.
Metadata changes. Noted data as 100K source and added advisory about using BLM GCDB as a more detailed and current PLSS data source.
Metadata edited, noted protracted nature of data.
Misc. edits: 32 features had Township values with control characters as the first character, followed by "06N" - changed to just "06N". 10 features had Township values of "O2N" rather than "02N" - changed to "02N". 7 features had Range values with control characters as the first character, followed by "01W" - changed to "01W". 12 features had Range values "9E" - changed to "09E".
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Coordinates defining the features.
Area of feature in internal units squared.
ESRI
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
Perimeter of feature in internal units.
ESRI
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
Area of feature in internal units squared.
Esri
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
This layer differs from the standard Public Land Survey System layer in that all landgrants and other areas excluded from the section survey process are filled in (with protracted data). The primary purpose of this is to facilitate the georeferencing of phenomena that are spatially referenced by meridian, township, range, and section. Though these sections do not legally exist, field personnel will interpolate to determine what the section would be if there were legally a section there. This is common with fire starts as reported by the California Department of Forestry (CDF). In fact, all of the work to fill in these excluded areas was completed by CDF to help georeference fire starts so they could be analyzed with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology.
This layer is based on 1:100,000-scale (100K) source data. Caution should be used when attempting to use it with more detailed sources such as 1:24,000-scale (24K) data. For the most current and detailed PLSS data, users should refer to BLM's Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB).
This layer depicts the township, range and sections contained in the Public Land Survey System grid for the State of California. Townships are roughly six miles square, and are numbered north and south from an established baseline. Likewise, ranges are numbered east and west from an established meridian. California uses three baseline/meridians, these being Humboldt, Mt. Diablo, and San Bernardino, abbreviated H, M, and S
Meridian, township, range, and section values are combined in the redefined item MTRS to facilitate relates from/to other tables.
To display and analyze township, range, and sections as contained in the Public Land Survey System grid.
Converted to California Teale Albers NAD83 by the California Department of Fish and Game. Coordinate values also converted to NAD83.
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Metadata edited, noted protracted nature of data.
Misc. edits: 32 features had Township values with control characters as the first character, followed by "06N" - changed to just "06N". 10 features had Township values of "O2N" rather than "02N" - changed to "02N". 7 features had Range values with control characters as the first character, followed by "01W" - changed to "01W". 12 features had Range values "9E" - changed to "09E".
Metadata changes. Noted data as 100K source and added advisory about using BLM GCDB as a more detailed and current PLSS data source.
Dataset moved.