![]() ![]() This system was part of the Land Ordinance enacted in 1785 by President Thomas Jefferson.īefore the Rectangular Survey System was established, the Metes and Bounds survey was the only way of identifying who owned what land. As the United States grew from its original 13 colonies, a system was needed to identify who owned what land. The Rectangular Survey System was established in 1785 to identify, divide, and measure land, creating boundary lines for property owners. ![]() The grid is divided into smaller sections known as quadrangles, townships, sections, half-sections, and quarter-sections, used to describe property boundaries in most of the United States. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Place(s): Colorado and United States Subject(s): Cadastral maps and Townships Date Issued: Use and reproduction: The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States.The Rectangular Survey System, also known as the Government Survey System or Public Land Survey System, is a method of plotting land boundaries in the United States using a large grid made up of rectangles. This data is optimized for data publication and sharing rather than for specific "production" or operation and maintenance. The data has been converted from source documents to digital form and transferred into a GIS format that is compliant with FGDC Cadastral Data Content Standards and Guidelines for publication. The primary source for the data is cadastral survey records housed by the BLM supplemented with local records and geographic control coordinates from states, counties as well as other federal agencies such as the USGS and USFS. This dataset represents the GIS Version of the Public Land Survey System including both rectangular and non-rectangular surveys. Shapefile Format –In the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a Township refers to a unit of land, that is nominally six miles on a side, usually containing 36 sections. ![]()
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