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    Public Land Survey System Boundaries

    Metadata Updated: February 9, 2024

    From USGS:The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a way of subdividing and describing land in the United States. PLSS surveys, which are available for portions of land in 30 southern and western states, are made by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The PLSS typically divides land into 6-mile-square townships. Townships are subdivided into 36 one-mile-square sections. Sections can be further subdivided into quarter sections, quarter-quarter sections, or irregular government lots. PLSS was created to divide parcels of public land; it is not useful for the accurate location of points and should not be confused with coordinate systems like latitude/longitude, UTM, or the State Plane Coordinate System.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date February 9, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from City of Tempe Data.json Harvest Source

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date February 9, 2024
    Publisher City of Tempe
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2020-07-27T14:27:04.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2020-07-27T14:42:13.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Source Title City of Tempe Data.json Harvest Source
    Homepage URL https://data.tempe.gov/maps/tempegov::public-land-survey-system-boundaries
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -114.8252,31.2758,-108.8504,37.0192
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 68d811a2eff8a6a2207842df30f541533212f9e3e65ca3ac810f083286e02ba2
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