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BLM Natl MLRS Oil Shale

Metadata Updated: November 13, 2025

This dataset contains oil shale leases derived from Legal Land Descriptions (LLD) contained in the US Bureau of Land Management's, BLM, Mineral and Land Record System(MLRS) and geocoded (mapped) using the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) derived from the most accurate survey data available through BLM Cadastral Survey workforce. Geospatial representations might be missing for some cases that can not be geocoded using the MLRS algorithm. This data set contains cases with the dispositions of 'Authorized', 'Pending','Closed', and 'Interim'. Each case is given a data quality score based on how well it mapped. These can be lumped into seven groups to provide a simplified way to understand the scores. Group 1: Direct PLSS Match. Scores “0”, “1”, “2”, “3” should all have a match to the PLSS data. There are slight differences, but the primary expectation is that these match the PLSS.  Group 2: Calculated PLSS Match. Scores “4”, “4.1”, “5”, “6”, “7” and “8” were generated through a process of creating the geometry that is not a direct capture from the PLSS. They represent a best guess based on the underlining PLSS  Group 3 – Mapped to Section. Score of “8.1”, “8.2”, “8.3”, “9” and “10” are mapped to the Section for various reasons (refer to log information in data quality field).  Group 4- Combination of mapped and unmapped areas. Score of 15 represents a case that has some portions that would map and others that do not.  Group 5 – No NLSDB Geometry, Only Attributes. Scores “11”, “12”, “20”, “21” and “22” do not have a match to the PLSS and no geometry is in the NLSDB, and only attributes exist in the data.  Group 6 – Mapped to County. Scores of “25” map to the County.  Group 7 – Improved Geometry. Scores of “100” are cases that have had their geometry edited by BLM staff using ArcGIS Pro or MLRS bulk upload tool.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 25, 2025
Metadata Updated Date November 13, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOI BLM DCAT-US

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 25, 2025
Metadata Updated Date November 13, 2025
Publisher Bureau of Land Management
Maintainer
Identifier https://blm-egis.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=2524f6ac5f3f494a96548e3f2e27801d&sublayer=0
Data First Published 2023-12-18T19:51:27Z
Data Last Modified 2025-01-21T22:46:05Z
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 010:04
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://ddi.doi.gov/blm-data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 9277b185-43d5-49c0-ac60-db4cef2c149a
Harvest Source Id ceb4b469-e13a-40f5-af40-5fe065f74ffa
Harvest Source Title DOI BLM DCAT-US
Homepage URL https://gbp-blm-egis.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BLM-EGIS::blm-natl-mlrs-oil-shale
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Metadata Type geospatial
Program Code 010:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash a6ec03bf7d764232a0a47dc0a7037664403874d7ffe899966bc3d2d0dec1e1ea
Source Schema Version 1.1

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