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title: Public Land Survey System Download
date: 2015-03-04T14:39:57Z
source: http://www.geocommunicator.gov/geocomm/lsis_home/home/
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) [Cadastral Survey Program][1] is responsible for the **official** boundary surveys of all federal-interest lands in the United States, which is over 700 million acres, nationwide. The [Public Land Survey System][2] is the foundation for many survey-based geographic information systems.

_Latest News: Our new PLSS datasets are here!_

BLM is providing updated downloadable PLSS data called the _Cad_astral _N_ational _S_patial _D_ata _I_nfrastructure (CadNSDI) that complies with the latest[ Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) guideline][3] for PLSS data.

[1]: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/cadastralsurvey.html
[2]: lsis-plss-description.html
[3]: http://www.nationalcad.org/data/documents/Cadastral Publication Guideline and Template.pdf