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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Step-by-step conversion and lookup tutorials

PLSS and TXSS for 15 industry verticals

State-by-state guides for all 30 PLSS states plus Texas

Deep-dive explainers: townships, sections, quarter sections

How Texas describes land — abstracts, blocks, surveys, leagues

All 37 US principal meridians explained

Definitions for PLSS, TXSS, abstracts, leagues, GLO, and more

PLSS sections across 30 states or Texas Survey System abstracts across all 254 counties — paste any description and get GPS coordinates instantly.