An approximately 6-mile square area of land containing 36 sections;also a horizontal row of townships in the PLSS.
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<element name="township" type="string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"><annotation><documentation>An approximately 6-mile square area of land containing 36 sections; also a horizontal row of townships in the PLSS.</documentation></annotation></element>
<element name="range" type="string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"><annotation><documentation>A vertical column of townships in the PLSS.</documentation></annotation></element>
The name of the section, a one-square-mile block of land of 640acres, or approximately one thirty-sixth of a township. Because ofthe curvature of the Earth, sections can be slightly smaller thanone square mile.
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<element name="section" type="string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"><annotation><documentation>The name of the section, a one-square-mile block of land of 640 acres, or approximately one thirty-sixth of a township. Because of the curvature of the Earth, sections can be slightly smaller than one square mile.</documentation></annotation></element>
The name of the standard subdivision of a section, such as a halfsection, quarter section or quarter-quarter section.
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<element minOccurs="0" name="aliquotPart" type="string"><annotation><documentation>The name of the standard subdivision of a section, such as a half section, quarter section or quarter-quarter section.</documentation></annotation></element>
The name of a subpart of a section that is not described as analiquot part but is designated by number, for example Lot 3. A lotcan be regular or irregular in shape, and its acreage can differfrom that of regular aliquot parts. These lots frequently borderwater areas excluded from the PLSS.
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<element minOccurs="0" name="governmentLot" type="string"><annotation><documentation>The name of a subpart of a section that is not described as an aliquot part but is designated by number, for example Lot 3. A lot can be regular or irregular in shape, and its acreage can differ from that of regular aliquot parts. These lots frequently border water areas excluded from the PLSS.</documentation></annotation></element>
The name of the point chosen as the starting point for allsectionalized land within a given area, located at the intersectionof a base line (a parallel of latitude, or approximately so) and aprincipal meridian.
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<element minOccurs="0" name="baseAndMeridian" type="string"><annotation><documentation>The name of the point chosen as the starting point for all sectionalized land within a given area, located at the intersection of a base line (a parallel of latitude, or approximately so) and a principal meridian.</documentation></annotation></element>
The name of an area of land to which title was conferred by apredecessor government and confirmed by the U.S. Government afterthe territory was acquired by the United States. These lands werenever part of the original public domain and were not subject tosubdivision by the PLSS.
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<element minOccurs="0" name="landGrant" type="string"><annotation><documentation>The name of an area of land to which title was conferred by a predecessor government and confirmed by the U.S. Government after the territory was acquired by the United States. These lands were never part of the original public domain and were not subject to subdivision by the PLSS.</documentation></annotation></element>
Database handle for the object. It is of XML type ID, so is constrained to beunique in the XML document within which it occurs. An external identifier for the object inthe form of a URI may be constructed using standard XML and XPointer methods. This is doneby concatenating the URI for the document, a fragment separator, and the value of the idattribute.
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