Minnesota's original public land survey plat maps were created between 1848 and 1907 during the first government land survey of the state by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office. This collection of more than 3,600 maps includes later General Land Office (GLO) and Bureau of Land Management maps up through 2001. Scanned images of the maps are available in several digital formats and most have been georeferenced.

The survey plat maps, and the accompanying survey field notes, serve as the fundamental legal records for real estate in Minnesota; all property titles and descriptions stem from them. They also are an essential resource for surveyors and provide a record of the state's physical geography prior to European settlement. Finally, they testify to many years of hard work by the surveying community, often under very challenging conditions.

The deteriorating physical condition of the older maps (drawn on paper, linen, and other similar materials) and the need to provide wider public access to the maps, made handling the original records increasingly impractical. To meet this challenge, the Office of the Secretary of State (SOS), the State Archives of the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), MnGeo and the Minnesota Association of County Surveyors collaborated in a digitization project which produced high quality (800 dpi), 24-bit color images of the maps in standard TIFF, JPEG and PDF formats - nearly 1.5 terabytes of data. Funding was provided by MnDOT.

In 2010-11, most of the JPEG plat map images were georeferenced. The intent was to locate the plat images to coincide with statewide geographic data without appreciably altering (warping) the image. This increases the value of the images in mapping software where they can be used as a background layer.

This file geodatabase contains parcel data including plat boundaries, tax parcels, easements and road right of ways. Attributed Parcel Point and Polygon data represent property descriptions (legal descriptions) and land ownership in Ramsey County joined to tax parcels.

The following links can be used to obtain individual metadata pages:

Attributed Parcel Point: plan_attributedparcelpoint.html
Attributed Parcel Poly: plan_attributedparcelpoly.html
Common Interest: plan_commoninterest.html
Subdivision: plan_subdivision.html
Tax Parcels: plan_taxparcel.html
Manufactured Home: plan_manufacturedhome.html
Personal Property: plan_personalproperty.html
Real Property: plan_realproperty.html
State Assessed Property: plan_stateassessedproperty.html
Conveyance Division: plan_conveyancedivision.html
Special Survey: plan_specialsurvey.html
Parcel Info: plan_parcelinfo.html
Easement: plan_easement.html
Landtie: plan_landtie.html
Right of Way: plan_rightofway.html
Historic Right of Way: plan_historicrightofway.html

This dataset contains polygons representing individual taxed parcels or individual tax-exempt parcels tracked for taxing purposes. It also contains polygons representing the locations of multiple tax properties. In the case of multiple tax properties, several parcel polygons may be stacked on top of one another. These are multiple tax parcels that cannot be delineated on a two-dimensional map, including both taxed and tax-exempt parcels. The parcels are represented with identical geometries but have different parcel IDs and associated tax attributes. The PID field contains the property ID number for each parcel.Link to Attribute Table Information: http://gis.hennepin.us/OpenData/Metadata/County%20Tax%20Parcels.pdf

© This dataset is compiled monthly by the Hennepin County GIS Office from parcel geometry that is created and maintained by the Hennepin County Resident and Real Estate Services Survey Division and tax attributes extracted from the Hennepin County Real Estate Services property tax information system.

Washington County, MN Tax Parcels. An independent manual check of the parcel data was made at the time of its initial development whereby all geo-coded parcel legal descriptions in a PLSS section were reinterpreted and examined for accuracy and completeness on the hard copy check plot. As each new plat or lot division occurs, a similar process is repeated for the new additions during the maintenance period. Multiple lines of ownership indicating ambiguity in property line location are merged into a single line if falling within 3 feet of each other. Gaps or overlaps in these situations are not shown. In some cases where two lines converge; e.g., where at one end the two lot lines are within 0.50 feet of each other and at the other end they are within 6.00 feet of each other they may be merged because the average discrepancy is 3 feet or less. Where gaps or overlaps exist in excess of approximately 3 feet in width, they are shown with text notation indicating APPARENT GAP or AREA OF DISCREPANCY.

This data set features polygons that represent tax parcels in Aitkin County, Minnesota. Polygons are identified by Parcel Identification Number (PIN). Polygons were mapped using the legal description on file in the Recorder's Office. Redundant geometries exist for condomimiums and undivided interests. Undivided ownership occurs when two or more parties have an ownership interest in the same parcel.

Easy to navigate and search for property information. Features a large map area and a printable property card. It also includes additional map features such as streets, lakes and parks.

This dataset includes high quality (800 Dots Per Inch - DPI), 24 bit color images of Minnesota's original Public Land Survey (PLS) plats created during the first government land survey of the state from 1848 to 1907. Currently housed at the Office of the Secretary of State, these plats were created by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office. This collection of more than 3,600 maps also includes later General Land Office (GLO) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) maps - up to the year 2001.

Minnesota's survey plat maps serve as the fundamental legal records for real estate in the state; all property titles and descriptions stem from them. They also serve as an essential resource for surveyors and as an analytical tool for the state's physical geography prior to European settlement. Finally, they serve as a testimony to years and years of hard work by the surveying community, often under challenging conditions.

In recent years the deteriorating physical condition of the older maps and the needs of technologically more sophisticated researchers, who require access to the maps, have made handling the original paper records increasingly less practical. To meet this challenge, the Office of the Secretary of State, the State Archives of the Minnesota Historical Society, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnGeo (formerly the Land Management Information Center - LMIC) and the Minnesota Association of County Surveyors collaborated in a digitization project which produced images of the maps in standard TIFF, JPEG and PDF formats - nearly 1.5 terabytes worth of data. Funding was provided by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

DCGIS is an interactive map that provides increased functionality for advanced users as well as access to about 150 layers of GIS data, including parcel information, contour lines, aerial photography, county park amenities, park trails, bikeways, county road construction, roundabouts, floodplains and more. It allows you to create a map at any scale you wish.
The Interactive GIS Map is intended for use on any device - mobile or desktop - with high speed access.

Valid from 01/01/2010.This is a feature layer depicting Tax Parcel Sales data in Hubbard County, MN.The feature layer contains the following attributes:PYPYEAR (Pay Year)DOTPIN (Parcel Number w/ periods)PYRNGPIN (Parcel Number)PINAME1 (Taxpayer Name 1)PINAME2 (Taxpayer Name 2)PIADRLN1 (Taxpayer Address 1)PIADRLN2 (Taxpayer Address 2)PICITY (Taxpayer City)PISTATE (Taxpayer State)PIZIPCD6 (Taxpayer Zip Code)DISTDSC1 (Township Name)DISTDSC2 (School District)PAADRLN1 (Physical Address)PACITY (Physical Address City)PASTATE (Physical Address State)PAZIPCD6 (Physical Address Zip Code)PLSECTN (Section Number)PLTWNSHP (Township Number)PLRANGE (Range Number)PTDSC (Plat Name)LGDSC (Legal Description)Last Sale DateLast Sale Price

This digital collection is a compilation of the state’s original plat maps drawn by the U.S. Surveyor General’s Office over the years 1848–1907. The collection includes later plat maps, up to the year 2001, drawn from surveys conducted by the General Land Office and the Bureau of Land Management.The original public land survey plats were created during the first government land survey of the state. They serve as fundamental legal records for real estate, as an essential resource for surveyors, and as an analytical tool for the state’s physical geography prior to European settlement. The original public land survey plats are the official legal land records for Minnesota and all property titles and descriptions stem from them.The collection of Plat maps can be viewed at any time by clicking the "View the collection" link on navigation bar located on the left-hand side of each screen. You are able to view and download high quality, full color images of the over 3,500 plat maps and associated textual data (tables of meanders appear on the back of some maps). Each plat map is available as a high resolution PDF and a lower resolution resampled PDF. The PDF images have NOT been georeferenced; however, a georeferenced JPG version is available.Land Ordinance of 1785: "The surveyors, as they are respectively qualified, shall proceed to divide said territory into townships of 6 miles square, by lines running due north and south, and others crossing these at right angles, as near as may be, unless where the boundaries of the late Indian purchases may render the same impracticable, and then they shall depart from this rule no further than such particular circumstances may require. ...As soon as 7 ranges of townships and fractional parts of townships, in the direction from south to north shall have been surveyed, the geographer shall transmit plats thereof to the board of treasury, who shall record the same, with the report in well bound books to be kept for that purpose." LEGEND:Physical Features: example - field, lake, stream, windfall, etc.Boundary Lines and Measurements: example - section, sub-sections, government lots, stream width, etcOther Map Features: example - meanders, dates, official signaturesNote: To see this map layer the scale must be less than 1:750,000; i.e. county level.

This file geodatabase contains datasets that represent public land survey (PLSS) data.

The following links can be used to obtain individual metadata pages:

Benchmark: loc_benchmark.html
Corner: loc_plss_corner.html
Section Line: plan_plss_sectionline.html
Government Lot: plan_plss_governmentlot.html
Half Section: plan_plss_halfsection.html
Quarter Quarter Section: plan_plss_qtrqtrsection.html
Quarter Section: plan_plss_qtrsection.html
Section: plan_plss_section.html
Township: plan_plss_township.html

Improving the quality of water discharged from agricultural watersheds requires comprehensive and adaptive approaches for planning and implementing conservation practices. These measures will need to consider landscape hydrology, distributions of soil types, land cover, and crop distributions in an integrated manner. The two most consistent challenges to these efforts will be consistency and reliability of data, and the capacity to translate conservation planning from watershed to farm and field scales. The translation of scale is required because, while conservation practices can be planned based on a watershed scale framework, they must be implemented by landowners in specific fields and riparian sites that are under private ownership. To support these goals, it has been necessary to develop planning approaches, high-resolution spatial datasets, and conservation practice assessment tools that will allow the agricultural and conservation communities to characterize and mitigate these challenges. The field boundary dataset represents a spatial framework for assembling and maintaining geospatial data to support conservation planning at the scale where conservation practices are implemented. This field boundaries dataset has been assembled to support field-scale agricultural conservation planning using the USDA/ARS Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF). The original data used to create this database are the pre-2008 Farm Bill FSA common land unit (CLU) datasets. A portion of metadata found herein pertains to the USDA FSA CLU. The remaining information has been developed to reflect the repurposing of the data in its aggregated form. It is important to note that all USDA programmatic and ownership information that was associated with the original data have been removed. Beyond that, these data has been extensively edited to reflect crop-specific land use consistent with 2015 land cover as derived from 2015 NASS Crop Data Layer datasets and 2015 aerial photography, and no longer reflects discrete ownership patterns. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Agricultural land use by field: Minnesota 2010-2019. File Name: MN_ACPFfields2019.zipResource Description: This field boundaries dataset has been assembled to support field-scale agricultural conservation planning using the USDA/ARS Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF).Resource Software Recommended: ArcGIS,url: https://www.esri.com/en-us/home Resource Title: Minnesota Field Boundaries 2019. File Name: MN_ACPF_fieldBoundaries_2019.pdfResource Description: Minnesota Field Boundaries 2019Resource Title: Minnesota ACPF Crop History 2010-2019. File Name: MN_ACPFfields_CropHistory2010_2019.pdfResource Description: Minnesota ACPF Crop History 2010-2019Resource Title: Minnesota ACPF Land Use 2014-2019. File Name: MN_ACPFfields_LandUse2014_2019.pdfResource Description: Minnesota ACPF Land Use 2014-2019

County tax parcels include land record information. Data is typically refreshed on a weekly basis.Tax Parcel data is an approximation of property only, not suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes.For more information, access the Metadata

This dataset provides information about the number of properties, residents, and average property values for County Line Road cross streets in Minnesota Lake, MN.

Scott County Parcels represent property tax boundaries and were created, and are maintained, by the Survey department. The tax boundaries are joined to the Assessor's CAMA data using the PID field providing field attributes for each property. For a list of field descriptions, click here.

The 2022 cartographic boundary KMLs are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. The cartographic boundary files include both incorporated places (legal entities) and census designated places or CDPs (statistical entities). An incorporated place is established to provide governmental functions for a concentration of people as opposed to a minor civil division (MCD), which generally is created to provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily, to population. Places always nest within a state, but may extend across county and county subdivision boundaries. An incorporated place usually is a city, town, village, or borough, but can have other legal descriptions. CDPs are delineated for the decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places. CDPs are delineated to provide data for settled concentrations of population that are identifiable by name, but are not legally incorporated under the laws of the state in which they are located. The boundaries for CDPs often are defined in partnership with state, local, and/or tribal officials and usually coincide with visible features or the boundary of an adjacent incorporated place or another legal entity. CDP boundaries often change from one decennial census to the next with changes in the settlement pattern and development; a CDP with the same name as in an earlier census does not necessarily have the same boundary. The only population/housing size requirement for CDPs is that they must contain some housing and population. The generalized boundaries of most incorporated places in this file are based on those as of January 1, 2022, as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). The generalized boundaries of all CDPs are based on those delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2020 Census.

Point shapefile provides the location and subsequent link to images of railroad station plats. Data contains information about the railroad ownership, roll numbers, sheet numbers and file names of the images.

This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely sensed and other information. This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory of soils and nonsoil areas that normally occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped. A special soil features layer (point and line features) is optional. This layer displays the location of features too small to delineate at the mapping scale, but they are large enough and contrasting enough to significantly influence use and management. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the National Soil Information System relational database, which gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties. Note: All Minnesota SSURGO data sets are now in Version 2 format. This format is compatible with NRCS's Soil Data Viewer, a free extension for ArcView 3.x that allows users to more easily create soil-based thematic maps. - For more information about Soil Data Viewer, see http://www.itc.nrcs.usda.gov/soildataviewer/ Also note: This metadata record was created by the Minnesota Land Management Information Center to serve as a generic record for all SSURGO data sets within Minnesota. See the individual county metadata records created by NRCS for county-specific information; these records are included in the data set download files.

This resource is a member of a series. The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System (MTS). The MTS represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. County subdivisions are the primary divisions of counties and equivalent entities for the reporting of Census Bureau data. They include legally-recognized minor civil divisions (MCDs) and statistical census county divisions (CCDs), and unorganized territories. In MCD states where no MCD exists or is not defined, the Census Bureau creates statistical unorganized territories to complete coverage. The entire area of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas are covered by county subdivisions. The boundaries of most legal MCDs are as of January 1, 2024, as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). The boundaries of all CCDs are those as reported as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2020 Census.

Summary Carver County Boundary file. Description This is a polygon dataset for the County Boundary derived from the County Surveryor's base map.