IGIC Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Update Lorraine Wright Indiana Department of Environmental Management February 24, 2010

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Outline Accomplishments 2009 Planned Activities for 2010 PLSS  Tie Card Summary  New Tie Card Activities Boundaries  Legal Descriptions  New State-wide County Boundary  Next step: Section corners and lines that define County Boundaries Cadastre (parcels )

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup 2010 Workgroup members  Joe Mullins, Hamilton Co.  John Milburn, County Surveyor’s Association  Beth Hippensteel, Volunteer  Phil Worrall, IGIC  Jim Sparks, IN GIO  Justin Peters, Land Office  Steve Claycomb, INDOT  Lorraine Wright, IDEM  Jim Swift, Boone Co.  Bryan Catlin, Marion Co.  Henry Aldridge, INDOT  Danielle Kindig, Newton Co.  Mike Williamson, Newton Co.

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Accomplishments 2009 CAP Grant received for data sharing initiative Developed the initial criteria needed to create an official state-wide county boundary layer Legislation - Enrolled Act 530 passed. It establishes an Indiana-Michigan Boundary Line Commission. The Commission will oversee a retracement survey of the original 1827 Indiana-Michigan boundary and re-establish the Indiana-Michigan boundary line for the counties along the Indiana-Michigan border.

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Accomplishments 2009  County Boundaries –  Compared all existing state-wide county boundary layers for source scale, accuracy currently being used  Identified the IGS county boundary layer as the best available most accurate state-wide county boundary layer  Added attributes to new State-wide County Boundary layer

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Accomplishments 2009  County Boundaries –  Began developing list of PLSS corners and lines that define county boundaries (based on legal descriptions)  Identified the Newberry Library as the most current information regarding legal references to County Boundaries at the state level.  The Newberry information contains more current legal references than the County Boundaries Book.

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Accomplishments 2009 Tie Card Project  Created a Tie Card Video – includes a summary of IGIC and the process steps to participate in the Tie Card Project  Prepared letter to send to County Surveyors to ask for participation in project  Working with County Surveyors Association

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Accomplishments 2009  Updated website to include:  Standards ◘ National Cadastral Standards ◘ Jurisdictional Boundaries Standards  County Boundary ◘ Boundary legislation ◘ Historic County Boundary information ◘ IN-Kentucky boundary shapefile and all documentation ◘ Surveyors information  Tie Card Project - Video

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Planned for 2010 New State-wide GIS County Boundary  Support the creation of a new authoritative GIS digital County Boundary shapefile for the IndianaMap (FDGC CAP Grant).  Define, collect and document all data sources (inventory County Boundaries).  Design and document the new county boundary shapefile(s).  Develop, document and test a methodology to create the new county boundary shapefile(s).  Develop, document and test a methodology to update/maintain the new county boundary shapefile(s).

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Planned for 2010 New State-wide County Boundary  Develop FGDC compliant metadata for the new county boundary shapefile(s).  Identify requirements (types of data) needed by Surveyors and the GIS initiatives to be viewed in the INMAP: ◘ County Boundary and PLSS points.  Data Model  Data Integration Plan

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Planned for 2010 New State-wide County Boundary  Support QA/QC efforts for the harvested county jurisdictional boundary and parcel data published to the IndianaMap  Investigate, define and document QA/QC issues to report  Develop, document and test a QA/QC methodology

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Planned for 2010  Tie Card Project  Send letter to County Survey – invitation to participate in the Tie Card Project  County Boundary Corners  a. Identify corners

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Tie Card Pilot Project Summary  Created Grid Point and Tie Card GIS layer  Created a state-wide naming convention for the Grid Points  Created a computer generated set of points representing an approximation of the PLSS ¼, ¼, ¼ corners  Created Renaming Software to be used to link a scanned image of Tie Card to a Grid Point  Setup the process to create a State-wide Tie Card GIS layer  Worked with Bartholomew, Newton and Jennings Co during the pilot project to put their Tie Cards on the IndianaMap website

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Tie Card Project Grid Point file naming convention  IN02_T23NR06E03_08  State Name and Prime Meridian – IN02  Township number - T23  Township direction – N  Range number – R06  Range direction – E  Section – 03  Grid Number – 08 (Grid numbering system begins with 00 in upper left hand of section and ends in 80, bottom left corner)

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Tie Card Project Grids points were created for ¼, ¼, ¼ section corners Computer generated Grid Point layer (numbering )

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Renaming Software for Tie Card Project

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Tie Card Project Bartholomew, Newton, and Jennings Co. Tie Card layers On IndianaMap

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Tie Card Project

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup New Tie Card Project activities Created a video  Summary of IGIC and step-by-step instructions on how to participate in the Tie Card Project Working with County Surveyor’s  Will be sending out a letter to County Surveyor inviting them to participate in the Tie Card Project  Implement Tie Card Project in interested counties Developing a process to link to:  County’s Tie Card database  Link to County’s Tie Card images on their website  Using Data Sharing initiative processes  Similar to the methods being used to harvest other county datasets

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup County Boundary Inventory of County Boundary sources  Census  Newberry  INDOT  IGS  92 Individual County boundaries  Southern Indiana Boundary  Court case, coordinates on paper, DNR created shapefile  Northern Indiana boundary retracement survey – ongoing

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup County Boundaries Determine which county boundary should be used as the state-wide County boundary layer  County Boundary will be used to compare harvested county data (needed common boundary)  Selected IGS County Boundary  Best scale available at state-wide level  Good metadata  New attributes will be incorporated as identified by Surveyors and GIS professionals ◘ Legal references ◘ Website links: County Surveyor and County GIS ◘ Coordinate, Datum, Zone ◘ Source ◘ Other

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup County Boundaries New State-wide County Boundary (polygon)  Attributes being added  Will be released onto IndianaMap as soon as it is completed Next step – County Boundary with Point and Line Feature level data based on legal descriptions  Acquire County boundary legal descriptions  Define PLSS corners and Section lines that define boundary  Associate the legal information to the Grid Points and IGS Section line segments to get feature level dataset

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Sources for County Boundary Legal Descriptions County Boundaries Book  Legal references for County boundary descriptions  Published in 1933 Newberry Library  History of Indiana Counties  Historical and current Indiana boundary shapefiles  Individual County Boundary Chronologies through 1981 Individual County Surveyor Offices

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup County Boundary Legal Description Define GIS points and lines that make up a county boundary using legal description Need to be able to change boundary points if GIS data is improved and need to have the common reference corners between counties identified so we are linking the common corners

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Counties boundary changes since 1900 (source Newberry Library)  8 March 1923 Kankakee River boundary of JASPER, LAKE, NEWTON, and PORTER adjusted to match ditching of streambed [not mapped]. (Ind. Acts 1923, 73d sess., reg., ch. 164, secs. 1- 3/pp )  2 March 1925 Kankakee River boundary of LA PORTE and STARKE adjusted to match ditching of streambed [not mapped]. (Ind. Acts 1925, 74th sess., ch. 41, secs. 1-3/pp )  9 March 1931 LA PORTE exchanged small areas with ST. JOSEPH. (Ind. Acts 1931, 77th sess., ch. 115, secs. 1-4/pp )  27 March 1979 Boundary between CLARK and WASHINGTON was redefined [no change]. (Ind. Acts 1979, 101st gen. assy., 1st reg. sess., pub. law no. 156/p. 714)  31 August 1981 Boundaries of FULTON, MARSHALL, and ST. JOSEPH clarified [no change]. (Ind. Secretary of State, correspondence, 13 Jul. 1990; Ind. Acts 1980, 101st gen. assy., 2d reg. sess., pub. law no. 212, secs. 1-2/pp )

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup County Boundary legal descriptions from 1981 As a result of Public Law number 212: County surveyors were required to file with the Indiana Secretary of State accurate legal descriptions of their counties as of 31 August 1981 and to report any later alterations within 30 days of the effective date of change. Apparently the county lines have remained stable because no changes were reported to the Secretary of State's office between 31 August 1981 and (source Newberry) Trying to locate 1981 County Surveyors reports with legal descriptions or the most current County boundary legal description

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup County Boundaries – Feature level data Correlate County boundary Section corners with Grid Points Correlate County boundary Section lines with IGS section lines Create point and line features that define the County Boundaries

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Grid points used for locating section corners that define County Boundaries (00, 04, 08, 36, 40, 44, 72, 76, 80)

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Locate the Legal County Boundary Description

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Copy the PLSS corner references to a database

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Legal PLSS County corner descriptionGrid point Names Copy and paste corner descriptions from the counties legal description into table Correlate Grid Point naming convention associated with PLSS corner

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Each section corner can have up to 4 grid points  The Grid point description depends on which section the PLSS corner was surveyed from Each Grid Point would have a different T,R, Section reference

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Identify sections on each side of the IGS County boundary line Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Marion County Correlate the legal corners that define the County Boundary with the Grid Points Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Select out the Grid Points associated with the legal corner references

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships The Section lines provide a line layer database for the County Boundary Marion County Boundaries- Cadastre- PLSS Workgroup

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Select out the Section line segments associated with the legal references You now have a point and line layer describing the County Boundary Marion County Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Marion County Select Grid Points associated with the legally referenced corner

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Sections used to define County Boundaries

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries- Cadastre- PLSS Workgroup Identify Grid Points and Section line references for other Counties

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Sections used to define County Boundaries State-wide Boundaries-Cadastre- PLSS Workgroup

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Cadastral (Parcel) data  Counties are sharing data through the Data Sharing Initiative  Harvested data is being posted to Indiana Map  The New State GIS County Boundary layer will be used in the support QA/QC efforts for the harvested county jurisdictional boundary and parcel data published to the IndianaMap

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships County Boundary (red) Parcel data (tan) Boundaries- Cadastre- PLSS Workgroup

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup County Boundary’s from Counties  Individual County Boundary data may be more accurate than the New State-wide County Boundary  Plans are being developed on how use the best available boundary information  The Workgroup is putting together a Data Integration plan for the Boundary layers

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Indiana Statewide Data Integration Plan Public Land Survey System (PLSS) Data Boundary Data Cadastral (Parcel) Data  Overview items  Current Holdings  Data Stewards  Data Standards  Data Distribution Methods  Strategic Plan  Draft by April 1, 2010

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Summary Most boundaries are defined by PLSS Township, Range, and Sections (some exceptions) Legal PLSS corner coordinates will eventually alter GIS County Boundaries, other jurisdictional boundaries, and parcel lines. Identifying the Boundary corners and section lines that define the legal County Boundary will help in aligning the GIS data in the future. All GIS data should be tied to the legally surveyed PLSS corners and section lines as described by the legal descriptions and surveyed by Surveyors.

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup 2010 Meeting Schedule:  Cadastral, Boundary, PLSS Workgroup Meetings  IGIC office – 9:30 – 11:30 am  March 17  April 14  May 12  June 9  July 14  August 11  September 8  October 13  November 10  December 8  Always check IGIC calendar for changes

Coordination of Indiana GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, and building partnerships Boundaries-Cadastre-PLSS Workgroup Casdastral, Boundaries, PLSS Workgroup  Invitation to participate  Comments and suggestions welcome For more information contact: Lorraine Wright Indiana Department of Environmental Management IGIC website: Workgroup Website: I