Answers to Yuma, Arizona Translation Exercise Land Description #1


Yuma, Arizona area Land Description #1

SW4 SW4 SE4 SEC 6 10 23

Assumptions: 10 is Township 10S, 23 is Range 23W, Principal Meridian is Gila and Salt River Meridian.

The Land Description shown above translates to entities and attributes in the Cadastral Data Content Standard as follows (entities are named in bold, and attributes are in italics):

Legal Area Description

State: Arizona

County: Yuma

City/Village/Town: Yuma

Other Locality Name: na

Source Link

Source Agent: Arizona, Dept of Revenue

Source Index: na (ex: volume-page indices, document number, survey group number)

Source Type: na (see Appendix 4 of Cadastral Standard for valid domains)

Source Date: na (date on document)

Recorded Date: na (calendar date shown on document at the time of recording)

Recorded Time: na (the clock time interval shown on document at the time of recording)

PLSS Description

Origin of PLSS: Gila and Salt River Meridian

Survey Name: na

Secondary Survey Name: na

PLSS Township

Township Number: 10

Township Direction: S

Township Fraction: na

Range Number: 23

Range Direction: W

Range Fraction: na

Township Duplicate Status: na

PLSS Township First Division

First Division Type: Section

First Division Designator: 6

First Division Suffix: na

PLSS Township Second Division

Second Division Type: Sixteenth

Second Division Designator: SWSE

Second Division Suffix: na

PLSS Township Third Division

Third Division Type: Fractional Part

Third Division Designator: SW

Third Division Suffix: na

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For additional practice, go to the Columbia County, Wisconsin Translation Exercise, or the Special Warranty Deed Translation Exercise


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