U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS)


DATA CATEGORY ATTRIBUTE TYPE MAJOR CODE MINOR CODE DESCRIPTION
U.S. Public Node 300 0001 U.S. Public Land Survey System
Land Survey section corner
System 0002 Deleted (Point on section line, no corner))
0003 Deleted (Closing corner)
0004 Meander corner
0005 Deleted (Auxiliary meander corner)
0006 Deleted (Special meander corner)
0007 Witness corner
0008 Witness point
0009 Angle point
0010 Location monument (includes amended monument and mineral monument)
0011 Deleted (Reference monument)
0012 Quarter-section corner
0013 Deleted (Tract corner)
0014 Land grant or other special survey corner
0015 Deleted (Arbitrary section corner)
0040 Deleted (Corner identified in field)
0041 Deleted (Corner with horizontal coordinates)
0042 Deleted (Corner with elevation value)
Area 300 0100 Deleted (Indian lands)
0101 Homestead entry survey
0102 Donation land claims
0103 Land grant; civil colonies
0104 Private extension of public land survey
0105 area of public and private survey overlap
0106 Overlapping land grants
0107 Deleted (Military reservation)
108 Private survey in Ohio
0109 Deleted (Other reservation)
0110 Plss area
0111 Tract
0112 U.S. survey
0113 Indian allotment
0114 Area outside of the public domain
0198 Water
0199 Deleted (Unsurveyed area)
Line 300 0201 Approximate position (within 200 feet)
0202 Protracted position
0203 Arbitrary closure line
0204 Deleted (Base line)
0205 Deleted (Claim line, grant line)
0299 Processing line (new)
Single-point 300 0300 Location or mineral monument
0301 Isolated found section corner
0302 Deleted (Witness corner (off surveyed line))
Descriptive 300 0600 Connecticut western reserve
0601 Virginia military district
0602 Ohio company purchase
0603 Symmes purchase
0604 French grants
0605 Donation tract
0606 Old Seven Ranges
0607 Congress lands north of Old Seven Ranges
0608 Congress lands east of Scioto River
0609 Between the Miamis, north of Symmes purchase
0610 West of Great Miami
0612 Refugee lands
0625 Fraction one-half for land grant corner, monument or section number, or nonsection identifier
Parameters 301 9999 (xyyy) Section number: In the first space, insert 0 for numeric section identifier, 1 for numeric portion of alphanumeric section identifier or 2 for alphabetic part of alphanumeric section identifier. In the last three spaces, insert section number or numeric representation of alphabetic character (01-26), right justified.
302 9999 (xyyy)Township number north of baseline; x = 0 for full township, 2 for 1/4 township, 4 for 1/2 township, or 6 for 3/4 township. Insert township number in the last three spaces, right justified.
303 9999 (xyyy)Township number south of baseline; x = 0 for full township, 2 for 1/4 township, 4 for 1/2 township, or 6 for 3/4 township. Insert township number in the last three spaces, right justified.
C. Range number(s)
304 9999 (xyyy) Range number east of principal meridian: x = 0 for a full range, 2 for 1/4 range, 4 for 1/2 range, 6 for 3/4 range, 8 for duplicate to the north or east of the original township, or 9 for triplicate to the north or east of the original township. Insert range number in last three spaces, right justified.
305 9999 (xyyy) Range number west of principal meridian: x = 0 for a full range, 2 for 1/4 range, 4 for 1/2 range, 6 for 3/4 range, 8 for duplicate to the north or east of the original township, or 9 for triplicate to the north or east of the original township. Insert range number in last three spaces, right justified.
306 9999 (00--) Origin of survey; 2 digit code; Appendix B
307 9999 (xyyy) Identifier, nonsection: x = 0 for numeric grant identifier, 1 for numeric portion of alphanumeric identifier, 2 for alphabetic portion of alphanumeric identifier; 3 for alphabetic identifier; 4 for identifier of named grant in Arizona; 5 for identifier of named grant in California; 6 for identifier of named grant in Colorado; 7 for identifier of named grant in New Mexico; 8 For identifier of named grant in other States: Where x = 0-3 above, insert the grant number or numeric representation of the alphabetic character (01-26), right-justified. Where x = 4-7 above, insert the three-digit code of the named grant as designated in Appendices C or D.
308 9999 (xxxx) Land grant, location, or mineral monument number
309 9999 Deleted ((00--) Coincident feature or symbol)

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