township, section and range

[Anonymous]

how can I get the township, section and range information into a drawing?

[Pointdump]

RM,

Can you elaborate a little? Where is your data coming from, and how do you want it to appear in the drawing?

Dave

[Anonymous]

Where the data comes from is exactly what I am trying to figure out. It need to show up on site plans similar to the one I attached. I am guessing it is imported somehow using coordinates.

[Anonymous]

Township, sections and range data will come from the local tax office or county land surveyor's office.  townships, sections and ranges are used by surveyors to locate large tracts of lands, a section is approximately 640 acres or 1 square mile.  Check for numbered surveys, railroad surveys at the tax office, sometimes they have very large area maps for such data.

[Pointdump]

RM,

OK, keeping in mind that GIS data is NOT survey quality, there's a wealth of PLSS shapefiles freely available. Here's a few places:

http://www.geocommunicator.gov/GeoComm/lsis_home/home/PLSS_download_LAcounty.htm

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=6ffdb2bcdabb495eb3a518c6aa8e19cf

http://www.louisianasiteselection.com/gis-data-download.aspx

I've attached a shapefile of Louisiana Townships. Drag-n-Drop the shapefile into a drawing and it'll look something like this:

Dave