GIS Library Contents - Metadata PLSS Section Boundary Lines

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Descriptive name		PLSS Section Boundary Lines
File name		trsln
Spatial domain		Pima County
Abstract		PLSS Sections displays the smallest unit in the Public Land Survey System; Township/Ranges are subdivided into 36 Sections; each Section is approximately one square mile. This layer represents the boundaries of the sections in line form. See trs for the polygon form.
Known errors/qualifications		Section Boundary Lines store an estimated Bearing and Distance value for each segment, as well as an accuracy estimate on a scale of 1(high accuracy) to 7(low) in the COGO Accuracy field. All lines start at a 4, due to the lineage (see below). As information from official documents is added, the Accuracy field will be upgraded based on how well the measure matches a document, as well as the age of the document itself to account for differences in available survey technology. These fields are not to be used in place of legal descriptions from official documents.
Feature type		line
Feature count		41,436
Thumbnail Map		trsln.pdf    (975,441 bytes, PDF created 04/19/2024 )
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?		2024-04-19  12:51 AM - Enterprise GDB - Library input format
		2024-04-18  06:53 PM - Shapefile - Back-level date-time by 5.97 hours
		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, converted to lines, and maintained in the Parcel Fabric. 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?		No

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