County Recorders and the Cadastral Data Content Standard

the Public Land Survey System Township Second Division Attribute
which corresponds with county recorder data


The box below illustrates in red the attribute from the Public Land Survey System Township Second Division entity of the Cadastral Data Content Standard which corresponds with data commonly used by county recorders.

pltwn2.GIF (4237 bytes)

PLSS Township Second Division - Public Land Survey System Townships second divisions are normally Public Land Survey System Aliquot Parts or Public Land Survey System Government Lots. This entity is the second subdivision of a Public Land Survey System Township. The Second Division may extend to the quarter or quarter-quarter division of a section. Divisions below the sixteenth (quarter-quarter) are in the PLSS Third Division.

Second Division Type - The Second Division Type of a Public Land Survey System Township is the second subdivision category. Domain: Block, Lot, Other Aliquot Part, Government Lot, Protracted Lot, Section, Quarter, Sixteenth, Half Section, Half Quarter, Parcel, Lot, Tract, free text.

Second Division Type corresponds to the following data commonly used by county recorders: quarter section, quarter-quarter section, block.


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Links to the other Cadastral Courses:
Learning The Cadastral Data Content Standard
Cadastral Information For GIS Specialists
Surveyors And The Cadastral Data Content Standard


Presented by the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, and

the Federal Geographic Data Committee Cadastral Subcommittee