ADCi Public Land Survey System (PLSS)-Digital Section Lines
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Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is part of a standard reference system established in 1785 by the United States government.
Data Source
1:100,000 scale DLG files from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps.
Coverage
PLSS 1:100,000 Data
The PLSS of the United States includes 29 states and part of Ohio.
Note: Gray areas indicate where PLSS is available.
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Content
The section lines form a rectangular grid consisting of township, range lines and section lines as closed polygons. The township range and section number are stored as attributes in each section.
Formats
ESRI - shape (.shp) and File GeoDatabase format - (1 TB limit per dataset) Must have version 9.2
MapInfo - .TAB and mid/mif
AutoCAD - .dwg
MicroStation - .dgn
Coordinate Systems
Geographic Decimal Degrees (Lat/Long) - WGS84, NAD83, NAD27
State Plane Coordinates (SPC) - NAD83 feet or meters, NAD27 feet or meters
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) - NAD83 feet or meters, NAD27 feet or meters.


