Learn About Legal Land Descriptions
Guides, tutorials, and resources for land professionals, PLSS across 30 US states and the Texas Survey System (TXSS) across all 254 Texas counties.
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How-To Guides
Step-by-step conversion and lookup tutorials
40+ guides
Industries
PLSS and TXSS for 15 industry verticals
15 guides
States
State-by-state guides for all 30 PLSS states plus Texas
31 guides
PLSS System
Deep-dive explainers: townships, sections, quarter sections
9 guides
Texas Survey System
How Texas describes land, abstracts, blocks, surveys, leagues
5 guides
Meridians
All 37 US principal meridians explained
37 guides
Glossary
Definitions for PLSS, TXSS, abstracts, leagues, GLO, and more
40+ guides
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