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PLSS Sections Dane County, Wisconsin 2014
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- PLSS Sections Dane County, Wisconsin 2014
- Originator
- Dane County Land Information Office
- Publisher
- Dane County Land Information Office
- Place of Publication
- Madison , WI , US
- Identifier
- https://geodiscovery.uwm.edu/catalog/ark:-77981-gmgsx921h9m
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Abstract
- This polygon data layer represents PLSS Sections for Dane County, Wisconsin in 2014. The dataset was originally published by the Dane County Land Information Office in 2014.[The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) or the Rectangular Survey System is used for over half of the United States. Each grid cell represents approximately 36 square miles. In creating the PLSS the government divided the land into Townships, each of which was to be 36 miles square (6 miles tall and 6 miles wide). The location of a Township is described by its position in relation to starting lines called Base Lines and Principal Meridians. A Township is identified by a Township number based on how far North or South it is from the Base Line, and a Range number based on how far East or West it is from the Principal Meridian. So a Township 3 position North of the Base Line and 4 positions West of the Principal Meridian is referred to as "T3N R4E". These townships would contain 36 Sections, each a mile square. These townships were to be oriented true to North/South, but because lines of true north eventually converge at teh North pole, it was impossible to keep the townships oriented and a square 36 miles. Because of this, Townships are rarely truly square. One the north and West side of Townships there are often tracts of land with unusual sizes. These are referred to as fractional forties and eighties.]
- Purpose
- This layer is intended for reference and mapping purposes and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. [This data are designed as a Tax Parcel product. This information is intended for cartographic use, general spatial analysis and as a spatial index to Land related information. It is not intended for site specific analysis.]
- Supplemental Information
- Augmented original metadata with AGSL specific elements. For official metadata contact the resource Point of Contact.
- Temporal Extent
- Bounding Box
- West
- -89.84096
- East
- -89.008148
- North
- 43.294196
- South
- 42.844312
- ISO Topic Category
- planningCadastre
- Place Keyword
- Dane County
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- GeoNames
- Theme Keyword
-
Polygon
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- FGDC
- Theme Keyword
- Real property
-
Surveying--Public lands
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Resource Constraints
- Use Limitation
- Please see the UWM Libraries statement on Copyright and Digital Collections.[Refer to the License Agreement for Dane County Digital Geographic Data Sets. http://www.co.dane.wi.us/lio/gis/licenseaggreement.pdf]
- Legal Constraints
- Use Limitation
- Although this data is being distributed by the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials. [The burden for determining 'fitness for use' rests entirely upon the requester/Licensee. Dane County and its co-producers will not be liable in any way for accuracy of the data or for uses other than intended. Dane County assumes no responsibility whatsoever for direct, indirect, special, consequential, exemplary or other damages. Licensee agrees to indemnify, hold harmless and defend Dane County, its employees, agents, representatives and co-producers from any claims, damages, liabilities and expenses arising from Licensee's use of licensed data sets or products derived there from.]
- Other Restrictions
- None [Data is copyright and licensed for use.]
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- unknown
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- Dane County Land Information Office
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Dane County Land Information Office
- Delivery Point
- 210 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703
- Country
- US
- lio.web.mail@countyofdane.com
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 103412
- Code Space
- Esri
- Version
- 9.2.0
Data Quality Information
- Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Report
- Result
- Lineage
- Process Step
- Description
- Changed name of file from Sections.shp to DaneCounty_PLSSSections_2014.shp.
- Source
- Title
- Originator
- Dane County Land Information Office
- Publisher
- Dane County Land Information Office
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Version
- 1.0
- Distributor
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Distributor
- Dane County Land Information Office
- Online Access
- Protocol
- Name
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- geometryOnly
- Vector Object Type
- composite
- Vector Object Count
- 1244
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- ark:/77981/gmgsx921h9m
- Dataset URI
- https://geodata.uwm.edu/public/gmgsx921h9m/DaneCounty_PLSSSections_2014.zip
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- American Geographical Society Library – UWM Libraries
- Position Name
- GIS Staff
- Delivery Point
- 2311 E Hartord Ave
- City
- Milwaukee
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53211
- Country
- US
- gisdata@uwm.edu
- Phone
- (414)-229-6282
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2020-03-12
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8