Indiana LTQQ Complete and Available Now

WhiteStar is engaged in a multi-year journey to map the Public Land Survey States (PLSS) down to the government lot and tract level (complete with legal acreages). We are very pleased to announce we have added Indiana to our master database. 

Original surveys in Indiana date back to 1797, so they are more than 200 years old, and yet remain the legal basis for all real estate mapping in Indiana (plus 29 other states).  

As you might imagine, surveys from the colonial era have no longitude/latitude coordinates on them, so each plat (surveyor drafted maps, often by hand) must be registered to the section-township-range GIS data inside our precision product, WhiteStar Grid®.  Multiple plats, drafted over time, may exist for any given township. This composite chain of plats and associated information such as the legally recorded acreage for lots in each township thus represent the legal basis for mapping in that township. This database, unique to WhiteStar, gives you confidence that digitally mapped polygon acreages in your GIS correspond to the acreages recorded in the original, legal records. 

The date of survey for each township can vary. Over the course of a year or more, streams can change course, some areas can experience floods or droughts. This results in a fairly complex fabric of public land survey data. 

How much more data has been added to WhiteStar Grid? Originally we stored 40,980 section and township polygons for Indiana. Public Land Survey polygons have increased to 730,409 land polygons in Indiana available nowhere else, more than a 1700% increase!  

You can view the new data along with basic information from WhiteStar Wells® in Indiana at no charge using WhiteStar Wizard from Apple’s App Store. Check out the WhiteStar Grid® page for additional coverage and stay tuned for more states to come.

Robert C. White, Jr.
President and CEO
WhiteStar Corporation