| USPLSS Section Grid for Wyandotte County, KS | |
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Data format: Shapefile File or table name: section_py Coordinate system: State Plane Coordinate System 1983 Theme keywords: planningCadastre, boundaries, section, USPLSS, Public Land Survey System, Rectangular Survey System, cadastral, land description, real property, township, range, grid, index, Kansas State-ID |
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Abstract:
Polygon feature layer GIS dataset of United States Public Land Survey System (USPLSS) section grid of Wyandotte County, Kansas in ESRI shapefile format, datum NAD83, Kansas North State Plane coordinate system, and units US feet.
USPLSS is a legal land reference system created to enable the description of and transfer of property. This system is divided into townships, ranges, and sections. A section is 1/36th of a township, and also one square mile, or 640 acres, in area.
This layer is a representation of the section grid in the County but it was not developed to survey standards, and should not be used for surveying or land conveyance purposes-- except as an overview guide which only approximates sections and their boundaries and section corners (no location accuracy +/- claims are made).
Attribution includes section number, township and range designations.
Also included are so-called State-ID (Kansas Uniform Parcel Number) assignments for county, township, "quad", and section developed by Kansas Property Valuation Division, Cartography Section, to facilitate real property identification uniformly across the state. The State-ID was designed primarily with traditional manual casdastral (land parcel) mapping in mind. |
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Polygon feature layer GIS dataset of United States Public Land Survey System (USPLSS) section grid of Wyandotte County, Kansas in ESRI shapefile format, datum NAD83, Kansas North State Plane coordinate system, and units US feet. USPLSS is a legal land reference system created to enable the description of and transfer of property. This system is divided into townships, ranges, and sections. A section is 1/36th of a township, and also one square mile, or 640 acres, in area. This layer is a representation of the section grid in the County but it was not developed to survey standards, and should not be used for surveying or land conveyance purposes-- except as an overview guide which only approximates sections and their boundaries and section corners (no location accuracy +/- claims are made). Attribution includes section number, township and range designations. Also included are so-called State-ID (Kansas Uniform Parcel Number) assignments for county, township, "quad", and section developed by Kansas Property Valuation Division, Cartography Section, to facilitate real property identification uniformly across the state. The State-ID was designed primarily with traditional manual casdastral (land parcel) mapping in mind.
This section grid is intended to serve as a geographic display and analysis index layer to sections in Wyandotte County. It is not fit for survey-related or land parcel mapping purposes-- except as a basic visual guide to approximate possible locations of USPLSS section lines and corners. It is optimally utilized as an index grid at the county level and at small scale (1:36,000 or smaller).
Unified Government's GeoSpatial Services (GSS) is also custodian/distributor of many other digital spatial reference layer datasets covering Wyandotte County, Kansas. For more information on publicly available datasets contact GSS using Distributor contact info in this metadata.
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GeoSpatial Services Division (GSS) of Department of Technical Services of the Unifed Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas.
Deemed complete and accurate for all attribution (see note on State-ID below). State-ID assignments for GIS tax parcels within sections may in practice vary in some cases from section State-ID assignments.
Polygon topology present, each feature poly has unique feature ID. Boundaries are coincident with corresponding boundaries of quarter-section lines and township lines in other layers maintained by GSS. Fractional sections are present (in conformance with USPLSS). Section polygon boundaries on county border are truncated by county border.
All sections in Wyandotte Co. are represented.
No quantitative assessment of positional accuracy has been made nor are any claims made. Placement and configuration of sections is approximate only-- not survey accurate. Topological relationship of sections to adjacent sections is good.
These base maps provided accurate topographic and planimetric detail to aid in placement of section boundaries, primarily through manuscript match lines (tic marks) at quarter section edges. These maps also contained cadastral info (property ownership information)
Tax parcels GIS layer furnished land parcels as references to section and quarter-section placement.
Spatial accuracy of boundaries was improved through revisions based on research and comparison of section lines with other reference sources. This revision work was done to clean up coincident linework with quarter-sections and townships layers. This was a visual process involving heads up editing environment using street centerlines layer, tax parcel layer, subdivision plats, engineering maps, rivers layers, and ortho aerial photography as referential guides.
Layer table was strengthened through standardization and expansion of attribution data. Consistency in table column names between this and other layer tables (quarter-sections and townships) was effected. Attributes from Kansas PVD State-ID data was added to layer records, with State-ID information from tax parcel layer (parcel_att_py) as basis. No feature digitizing was done.
Metadata imported.
Feature geometry.
ESRI
USPLSS Section Number
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Area of feature in internal units squared.
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Aerial Orthophotograph Tile Index Letter (A-W) for 1997 (black/white) and 2001 (color) ortho aerial photography of Wyandotte Co., KS
GSS
KS PVD State-ID County Identifier
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KS PVD State-ID Township Identifier (values = 01 thru 07)
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KS PVD State-ID "Quad" (4-section clusters within townships) Identifier (values = 1-9)
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KS PVD State-ID Section Number Identifier (same as legal section number)
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Custom Identifier Code for a section within a township (A-G township, 01-31 for legal section number, e.g. A05)
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Custom identifier for Townships in Wyandotte Co. (values = A thru G)
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USPLSS Range designation
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USPLSS Township designation
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USPLSS Township Number (e.g.: 10)
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USPLSS Range Number (e.g.: 24)
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Internal feature number.
ESRI
Contains basic USPLSS attributes such as section, township, and range information for each section record. Also contains some Kansas PVD State-ID assignments and a few other misc. attributes.
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