Township America for Rural insurance underwriters
Verify rural property locations from PLSS legal descriptions on policy applications — fast.
Rural property insurance applications describe the insured location in PLSS notation. Underwriters need to verify the location, check for hazard proximity (flood, wildfire, federal land), and price the policy accordingly. Township America converts the legal description in seconds and returns the section polygon for map overlay and batch portfolio review.
How the workflow changes.
- Look up each PLSS description in a county GIS viewer
- Cross-reference flood and wildfire risk in a separate tool
- Manually verify federal-land proximity for ranch and timber policies
- Re-key coordinates into the underwriting system
- Convert PLSS to GPS + polygon in one lookup
- Toggle the Federal Land surface management overlay on the section polygon (Pro); add hazard layers with a data pack
- Batch convert a portfolio of legacy policies during renewal review
- Integrate the lookup into the policy admin system via REST API
Features that fit a rural property insurance underwriter's day.
Each feature is plan-gated. The recommended plan for this role is Business ($40/mo).
Common questions from rural insurance underwriters.
Can I check flood zones and wildfire risk for a rural policy location?
Pro includes built-in map overlays for Federal Land surface management and BLM mining claims. The Texas pack ($100/mo) adds Texas coastal/flood hazard layers, and the Energy pack ($150/mo) adds federal lease and producing-well context on federal-adjacent parcels — both sit on top of Pro or Business.
Can I run the lookup against a portfolio of policies in bulk?
Yes. Business supports CSV upload of up to 10K rows per job and unlimited batch — fits a renewal-review portfolio. The output includes section centroids and polygons.
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