GIS Library Contents - Metadata PLSS Section Boundaries

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Descriptive name		PLSS Section Boundaries
File name		trs
Spatial domain		Pima County
Abstract		trs displays the smallest unit in the Public Land Survey System; Township/Ranges are subdivided into 36 Sections; each Section is approximately one square mile. These polygons are maintained in the Parcel Fabric. This layer has been adjusted to Section corner data from the GIS parcel Section AutoCAD drawings. It also includes the half Township South of 12S14E Sections 31-34, designated as 12F14E (field TR). TOWNSHIP and RANGE field values are four characters where the last two characters indicate the direction where 01 is North, 02 is East, 03 is South and 04 is West. See more information.
Known errors/qualifications		The Canoa Land Grant area is not part of the Public Land Survey System. The trs layer includes sections in the Canoa Land Grant area as if it had been included in the survey. 2021 - This layer contains a Stated Area field in square miles. This is a GIS calculated estimate and should not be used in place of official stated areas from the original documents.
Feature type		polygon
Feature count		9,310
Thumbnail Map		trs.pdf    (755,187 bytes, PDF created 04/24/2024 )
Projection		NAD83 HPGN (Parameters)
Rectification		parcel
Field/value metadata		Field metadata
Source organization		ALRIS
Source contact
Source document or file name
Source date		1988
Source scale		1:24,000
Source format		Coverage
Second source name		Pima County DOT
Second source contact		Steve Whitney
Second source document or file name
Second source date		1992
Second source scale
Second source format		Database
Date of last data update (This date may not be current.)		20161219
Last data update by		Gary Szilagyi
Date/time last touched - Meaning?		2024-04-24  12:57 AM - Enterprise GDB - Library input format
		2024-04-24  07:08 PM - Shapefile
		See coverage files, if any, for date.
Lineage		The TRS layer for Pima County was extracted from a state-wide layer of PLSS Section boundaries as received from ALRIS. The ALRIS layer was tablet digitized from USGS 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle paper maps. In 1992, a database of Section corner locations was acquired from ADOT, and the TRS layer was adjusted to match those ADOT Section corners that were surveyed to an acceptable level. In 2010, the Section boundaries were adjusted to Section corner locations from the GIS parcel AutoCAD drawings. In 2021, the section boundaries were converted from AutoCAD .dwg to feature class, and maintained in the Parcel Fabric.
On maintenance?		Yes
Maintenance organization		Pima County ITD
Maintenance frequency		Varies
Maintenance description		Boundaries are updated on a case by case basis, usually to be in congruence with parcels that border Sections, and occasionally to reflect the traverse information found on official documents.
Original conversion by		ALRIS
Pima County ITD GIS contact		Steve Whitney
Alternate Pima County ITD GIS contact
On  Pima County Geospatial Data Portal?		Yes

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