These maps range in date from 1848 through 2002. The original map documents (3,609) were scanned and saved in a variety of digital formats (TIFF, JPEG and PDF) formats during the period of May through August, 2003. Funding was provided by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. To meet this challenge, the Office of the Secretary of State, the State Archives of the Minnesota Historical Society, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the Department of Administration's Land Management Information Center 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 worth of data. 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. Finally, they serve as a testimony to years and years of hard work by the surveying community, often under challenging conditions. They also serve as an essential resource for surveyors and as an analytical tool for the state's physical geography prior to European settlement. 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. This collection of more than 3,600 maps includes later General Land Office (GLO) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) maps - up to the year 2001. Surveyor General's Office during the years 1848 to 1907.
Minnesota Land Management Information CenterĬurrently housed at the Office of the Secretary of State are Minnesota's original public land survey plats which were created during the first government land survey of the state by the U.S. Metadata created using Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines Minnesota's Original Public Land Survey (PLS) Maps - Conversion to Digital Images (TIFF, JPEG and PDF formats) Metadata: Minnesota's Original Public Land Survey (PLS) Maps - Conversion to Digital Images (TIFF, JPEG and PDF formats) - Full Metadata .
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