USPLSS Section Grid for Wyandotte County, KS

Data format: Shapefile

File or table name: section_py

Coordinate system: State Plane Coordinate System 1983

Theme keywords: planningCadastre, boundaries, section, USPLSS, Public Land Survey System, Rectangular Survey System, cadastral, land description, real property, township, range, grid, index, Kansas State-ID

Abstract: Polygon feature layer GIS dataset of United States Public Land Survey System (USPLSS) section grid of Wyandotte County, Kansas in ESRI shapefile format, datum NAD83, Kansas North State Plane coordinate system, and units US feet. USPLSS is a legal land reference system created to enable the description of and transfer of property. This system is divided into townships, ranges, and sections. A section is 1/36th of a township, and also one square mile, or 640 acres, in area. This layer is a representation of the section grid in the County but it was not developed to survey standards, and should not be used for surveying or land conveyance purposes-- except as an overview guide which only approximates sections and their boundaries and section corners (no location accuracy +/- claims are made). Attribution includes section number, township and range designations. Also included are so-called State-ID (Kansas Uniform Parcel Number) assignments for county, township, "quad", and section developed by Kansas Property Valuation Division, Cartography Section, to facilitate real property identification uniformly across the state. The State-ID was designed primarily with traditional manual casdastral (land parcel) mapping in mind.

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Identification Information:


Citation:
Citation information:
Originators: GeoSpatial Services


Title:
USPLSS Section Grid for Wyandotte County, KS
*File or table name: section_py


Publication date: Unknown
*Geospatial data presentation form: vector digital data


Other citation details:
Original version of this dataset originated in the 1990's with Wyandotte Co. Base Mapping Program. Using mylar planimetric/topographic map extents as guides, section lines/nodes were digitized via heads up digitizing using a street centerline layer as a reference guide for placement relative to street features. Layer was cleaned up and polygon topology created. Current dataset version features revisions, corrections, and expansion of attribution.


*Online linkage: \\Ug.unifiedgov.org\ugcommon\GIS\data\pub\index\section_py.shp


Description:
Abstract:
Polygon feature layer GIS dataset of United States Public Land Survey System (USPLSS)  section grid of Wyandotte County, Kansas in ESRI shapefile format, datum NAD83, Kansas North State Plane coordinate system, and units US feet.
 
USPLSS is a legal land reference system created to enable the description of and transfer of property. This system is divided into townships, ranges, and sections.  A section is 1/36th of a township, and also one square mile, or 640 acres, in area.

This layer is a representation of the section grid in the County but it was not developed to survey standards, and should not be used for surveying or land conveyance purposes-- except as an overview guide which only approximates sections and their boundaries and section corners (no location accuracy +/- claims are made).

Attribution includes section number, township and range designations.

Also included are so-called State-ID (Kansas Uniform Parcel Number) assignments for county, township, "quad", and section developed by Kansas Property Valuation Division, Cartography Section, to facilitate real property identification uniformly across the state. The State-ID was designed primarily with traditional  manual casdastral  (land parcel) mapping in mind.

Purpose:
This section grid is intended to serve as a geographic display and analysis index layer to sections in Wyandotte County. It is not fit for survey-related or land parcel mapping purposes-- except as a basic visual guide to approximate possible locations of USPLSS section lines and corners. It is optimally utilized as an index grid at the county level and at small scale (1:36,000 or smaller).

Supplemental information:
Unified Government's GeoSpatial Services (GSS) is also custodian/distributor of many other digital spatial reference layer datasets covering Wyandotte County, Kansas. For more information on publicly available datasets contact GSS using Distributor contact info in this metadata.

*Language of dataset: en


Time period of content:
Time period information:
Single date/time:
Calendar date: 20100129

Currentness reference:
publication date

Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance and update frequency: None planned

Spatial domain:
Bounding coordinates:
*West bounding coordinate: -94.914299
*East bounding coordinate: -94.586064
*North bounding coordinate: 39.204464
*South bounding coordinate: 38.982147

Local bounding coordinates:
*Left bounding coordinate: 2189222.555263
*Right bounding coordinate: 2279650.250063
*Top bounding coordinate: 332260.997490
*Bottom bounding coordinate: 254483.749829

Keywords:
Theme:
Theme keywords: planningCadastre, boundaries
Theme keyword thesaurus: ISO 19115

Theme:
Theme keywords: section, USPLSS, Public Land Survey System, Rectangular Survey System, cadastral, land description, real property, township, range, grid, index, Kansas State-ID
Theme keyword thesaurus: UG GeoSpatial Services GIS Keyword Thesaurus

Place:
Place keywords: Wyandotte County Kansas, Bonner Springs Kansas, Edwardsville Kansas, City of Lake Quivira Kansas, Delaware Township, Kansas City Metro Area, Kansas City SMSA, Northeast Kansas, Kansas, Midwest, Middle West, Central US, Central Plains, KS, United States

Access constraints: Data is publicly available, but is copyrighted © 2010 by Unified Government of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Kansas. All rights reserved. Secondary distribution is by permission only. Acquisition of certain datasets is subject to terms of 'GIS Data Transmittal and Confidentiality Agreement'. For details contact GeoSpatial Services.
Use constraints:
1) Use of certain datasets is subject to terms of 'GIS Data Transmittal and Confidentiality Agreement'. For details contact GeoSpatial Services (GSS). GSS asserts all rights under copyright © 2010 by Unified Government of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Kansas. Unauthorized redistribution not permitted.

2) This metadata is an integral part of this data and should be used with and accompany data.

3) This data may come from a variety of sources and lineage and may not align perfectly when overlaid with other GIS layers.

4) You, the user, must exercise good judgment when acting upon this information.  This data should always be independently verified with original (primary) data sources for accuracy/currency/completeness if circumstances (such as possible economic loss, physical injury risk, etc.) require it. Distribution of this data is intended for informational purposes only and said data is not necessarily deemed to standards for navigational, engineering, surveying, or legal uses. Data should not be used at a scale at odds with its accuracy or resolution.

5) Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information, errors may be reflected in the data supplied.

Point of contact:
Contact information:
Contact organization primary:
Contact organization: GeoSpatial Services

Contact voice telephone: 913-573-2941
Contact facsimile telephone: 913-573-4106


Contact electronic mail address: gss@wycokck.org


Hours of service: 8 AM - 5 PM Central Time | 14:00 - 23:00 UTC/GMT
Contact instructions:
For general inquiries: call 913-573-2941 or email to gss@wycokck.org

For GIS digital data requests/inquiries call 913-573-2941 or email to GetGISdata@wycokck.org

Data set credit:
GeoSpatial Services Division (GSS) of Department of Technical Services of the Unifed Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas.

Security information:
Security classification: Unclassified

*Native dataset format: Shapefile
*Native data set environment:
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.6.1500


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Data Quality Information:


Attribute accuracy:
Attribute accuracy report:
Deemed complete and accurate for all attribution (see note on State-ID below).

State-ID assignments for GIS tax parcels within sections may in practice vary in some cases from section State-ID assignments.

Logical consistency report:
Polygon topology present, each feature poly has unique feature ID.

Boundaries are coincident with corresponding boundaries of quarter-section lines and township lines in other layers maintained by GSS.

Fractional sections are present (in conformance with USPLSS). Section polygon boundaries on county border are truncated by county border.

Completeness report:
All sections in Wyandotte Co. are represented.

Positional accuracy:
Horizontal positional accuracy:
Horizontal positional accuracy report:
No quantitative assessment of positional accuracy has been made nor are any claims made. Placement and configuration of sections is approximate only-- not survey accurate. Topological relationship of sections to adjacent sections is good.

Lineage:
Source information:
Source citation:
Citation information:
Originators: Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, KS, Board of Public Utilities, MJ Harden Assoc.


Title:
Aerial Topographic Base Maps of Wyandotte County


Publication date: various editions: 1970's-'80s
Geospatial data presentation form: map


Other citation details:
Wyandotte County Mapping Consortium (Kansas City, KS Public Works departments), Wyandotte County Base Mapping Program [later known as GSS], and Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, KS) developed specifications for and procured this mapping from vendor MJ Harden Assoc. of KC


Source scale denominator: 1:1200
Type of source media: stable-base material (mylar manuscript)
Source contribution:
These base maps provided accurate topographic and planimetric detail to aid in placement of section boundaries, primarily through manuscript match lines (tic marks) at quarter section edges.

These maps also contained cadastral info  (property ownership information)

Source time period of content:
Source currentness reference:
ground condition

Source information:
Source citation:
Citation information:
Originators: GeoSpatial Services


Title:
Wyandotte County Tax Parcels


Publication date: various
Geospatial data presentation form: vector digital data


Source scale denominator: 1:1200
Type of source media: computer program
Source contribution:
Tax parcels GIS layer furnished land parcels as references to section and quarter-section placement.

Source time period of content:
Source currentness reference:
publication date

Process step:
Process description:
Spatial accuracy of boundaries was improved through revisions based on research and comparison of section lines with other reference sources.

This revision work was done to clean up coincident linework with quarter-sections and townships layers.

This was a visual process involving heads up editing environment using street centerlines layer, tax parcel layer, subdivision plats, engineering maps, rivers layers, and ortho aerial photography as referential guides.

Process date: 20080811


Process contact:
Contact information:
Contact person primary:
Contact person: R Ringel

Process step:
Process description:
Layer table was strengthened through standardization and expansion of attribution data. Consistency in table column names between this and other layer tables (quarter-sections and townships) was effected. Attributes from Kansas PVD State-ID data was added to layer records, with State-ID information from tax parcel layer (parcel_att_py) as basis.

No feature digitizing was done.

Process date: 20100128


Process contact:
Contact information:
Contact person primary:
Contact person: D Schaffer

Process step:
Process description:
Metadata imported.

Source used citation abbreviation:
R:\gss\projects\Meta\qtr_sec_pynew.xml


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Spatial Data Organization Information:


*Direct spatial reference method: Vector


Point and vector object information:
SDTS terms description:
*Name: section_py
*SDTS point and vector object type: G-polygon
*Point and vector object count: 0

ESRI terms description:
*Name: section_py
*ESRI feature type: Simple
*ESRI feature geometry: Polygon
*ESRI topology: FALSE
*ESRI feature count: 0
*Spatial index: FALSE
*Linear referencing: FALSE


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Spatial Reference Information:


Horizontal coordinate system definition:
Coordinate system name:
*Projected coordinate system name: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Kansas_North_FIPS_1501_Feet
*Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983

Planar:
Grid coordinate system:
*Grid coordinate system name: State Plane Coordinate System 1983
State Plane Coordinate System:
*SPCS zone identifier: 1501
Lambert conformal conic:
*Standard parallel: 38.716667
*Standard parallel: 39.783333
*Longitude of central meridian: -98.000000
*Latitude of projection origin: 38.333333
*False easting: 1312333.333333
*False northing: 0.000000

Planar coordinate information:
*Planar coordinate encoding method: coordinate pair
Coordinate representation:
*Abscissa resolution: 0.000000
*Ordinate resolution: 0.000000
*Planar distance units: survey feet

Geodetic model:
*Horizontal datum name: North American Datum of 1983
*Ellipsoid name: Geodetic Reference System 80
*Semi-major axis: 6378137.000000
*Denominator of flattening ratio: 298.257222

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Entity and Attribute Information:


Detailed description:
*Name: section_py


Entity type:
Entity type label: Wyandotte Co., KS USPLSS Section Index Grid
*Entity type type: Feature Class
*Entity type count: 0
Entity type definition:
Wyandotte Co., KS USPLSS Section Index Grid
Entity type definition source:
GSS

Attribute:
Attribute label: Shape
*Attribute alias: Shape
Attribute definition:
Feature geometry.
Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Geometry
*Attribute width: 0
*Attribute precision: 0
*Attribute scale: 0


Attribute domain values:
Unrepresentable domain:
Coordinates defining the features.


Attribute:
Attribute label: SEC
*Attribute alias: SEC
Attribute definition:
USPLSS Section Number
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 2
*Attribute precision: 0
*Attribute scale: 0


Attribute:
Attribute label: Shape_Leng
*Attribute alias: Shape_Leng


*Attribute type: Float
*Attribute width: 19
*Attribute number of decimals: 11


Attribute:
Attribute label: Shape_Area
*Attribute alias: Shape_Area
Attribute definition:
Area of feature in internal units squared.
Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: Float
*Attribute width: 19
*Attribute number of decimals: 11


Attribute domain values:
Unrepresentable domain:
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.


Attribute:
Attribute label: ORTHOMAP
*Attribute alias: ORTHOMAP
Attribute definition:
Aerial Orthophotograph Tile Index Letter (A-W) for 1997 (black/white) and 2001 (color) ortho aerial photography of Wyandotte Co., KS
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: Float
*Attribute width: 19
*Attribute number of decimals: 11


Attribute:
Attribute label: SID_COUNTY
*Attribute alias: SID_COUNTY
Attribute definition:
KS PVD State-ID County Identifier
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 3


Attribute:
Attribute label: SID_TWNSHP
*Attribute alias: SID_TWNSHP
Attribute definition:
KS PVD State-ID Township Identifier (values = 01 thru 07)
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 2


Attribute:
Attribute label: SID_QUAD
*Attribute alias: SID_QUAD
Attribute definition:
KS PVD State-ID "Quad" (4-section clusters within townships) Identifier (values = 1-9)
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 1


Attribute:
Attribute label: SID_SEC_NO
*Attribute alias: SID_SEC_NO
Attribute definition:
KS PVD State-ID Section Number Identifier (same as legal section  number)
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 4


Attribute:
Attribute label: SECMAP
*Attribute alias: SECMAP
Attribute definition:
Custom Identifier Code for a section within a township (A-G township, 01-31 for legal section number, e.g. A05)
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 4


Attribute:
Attribute label: INDX
*Attribute alias: INDX
Attribute definition:
Custom identifier for Townships in Wyandotte Co. (values = A thru G)
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 2


Attribute:
Attribute label: RANGE
*Attribute alias: RANGE
Attribute definition:
USPLSS Range designation
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 2


Attribute:
Attribute label: TOWNSHIP
*Attribute alias: TOWNSHIP
Attribute definition:
USPLSS Township designation
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 2


Attribute:
Attribute label: TWN
*Attribute alias: TWN
Attribute definition:
USPLSS Township Number (e.g.: 10)
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 3


Attribute:
Attribute label: RNG
*Attribute alias: RNG
Attribute definition:
USPLSS Range Number (e.g.: 24)
Attribute definition source:
GSS

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 2


Attribute:
*Attribute label: FID
*Attribute alias: FID
*Attribute definition:
Internal feature number.
*Attribute definition source:
ESRI

*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 1


Attribute domain values:
*Unrepresentable domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.


Attribute:
*Attribute label: Shape_Le_1
*Attribute alias: Shape_Le_1


*Attribute type: String
*Attribute width: 1


Overview description:
Entity and attribute overview:
Contains basic USPLSS attributes such as section, township, and range information for each section record. Also contains some Kansas PVD State-ID assignments and a few other misc. attributes.

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Distribution Information:


Distributor:
Contact information:
Contact organization primary:
Contact organization: GeoSpatial Services

Contact voice telephone: 913-573-2941
Contact facsimile telephone: 913-573-4106


Contact electronic mail address: gss@wycokck.org


Hours of service: 8 AM - 5 PM Central Time | 14:00 - 23:00 UTC/GMT



Resource description: Downloadable Data


Distribution liability:
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND ACCURACY: Unified Government of Wyandotte Co./Kansas City, KS (UG) makes no representations or warranties about this data or its content, including, without limitation: accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any purpose. Users of this data do so at their own risk; UG will not be liable to any such user for any loss or damage whatsoever.

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Digital transfer information:
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Metadata Reference Information:


*Metadata date: 20100428
Metadata future review date: As Needed


*Language of metadata: en


Metadata contact:
Contact information:
Contact organization primary:
Contact organization: GeoSpatial Services

Contact address:
Address type: mailing and physical address
Address:
710 N. 7th Street, Suite 70
City: Kansas City
State or province: Kansas
Postal code: 66101
Country: USA

Contact voice telephone: 913-573-2941
Contact facsimile telephone: 913-573-4106


Contact electronic mail address: gss@wycokck.org


Hours of service: 8 AM - 5 PM Central Time | 14:00 - 23:00 UTC/GMT



*Metadata standard name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
*Metadata standard version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
*Metadata time convention: local time


Metadata access constraints: None
Metadata use constraints:
None


Metadata security information:
Metadata security classification: Unclassified
Metadata security handling description:
This metadata should accompany the dataset it describes, and should not be altered in a manner that misconstrues its content.

Metadata extensions:
*Online linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
*Profile name: ESRI Metadata Profile

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Geoprocessing History:


Process:
*Process name: FeatureClassToFeatureClass_11
*Date: 20100428
*Time: 153221
*Tool location: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Conversion Tools.tbx\FeatureClassToFeatureClass
*Command issued: FeatureClassToFeatureClass R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py R:\data\pub\index section_py.shp # "Shape_Leng Shape_Leng true true false 8 Double 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,Shape_Leng,-1,-1;Shape_Le_1 Shape_Length false true true 8 Double 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,Shape_Length,-1,-1;Shape_Area Shape_Area false true true 8 Double 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,Shape_Area,-1,-1;SID_COUNTY SID_COUNTY true true false 3 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,SID_COUNTY,-1,-1;SID_TWNSHP SID_TWNSHP true true false 2 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,SID_TWNSHP,-1,-1;INDX INDX true true false 1 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,INDX,-1,-1;RANGE RANGE true true false 4 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,RANGE,-1,-1;TOWNSHIP TOWNSHIP true true false 4 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,TOWNSHIP,-1,-1;TWN TWN true true false 2 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,TWN,-1,-1;RNG RNG true true false 2 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,RNG,-1,-1;SEC SEC true true false 2 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,SEC,-1,-1;SECMAP SECMAP true true false 3 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,SECMAP,-1,-1;SID_SEC_NO SID_SEC_NO true true false 2 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,SID_SEC_NO,-1,-1;ORTHOMAP ORTHOMAP true true false 1 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,ORTHOMAP,-1,-1;SID_QUAD SID_QUAD true true false 1 Text 0 0 ,First,#,R:\data\dev\index\index.gdb\section_py,SID_QUAD,-1,-1" # R:\data\pub\index\section_py.shp


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