Find the centre coordinates of quarter sections and other legal division types using the legal land description.
Value
A tibble of legal land descriptions, division type, and corresponding latitude and longitude coordinates.
Details
A legal land description for a quarter section consists of four values separated by a -
Quarter Section (SW)
Section (9)
Township (8)
Range (6E1)
For example: A legal land description of SW-9-8-6E1 can be interpreted as the Southwest Quarter of Section 9, Township 8, Range 6 East of the 1st Meridian.
search_legal() takes legal land descriptions and locates the centre
coordinates of the quarter sections. You can include leading zeroes
(e.g., NE-01-012-12E1) or not (e.g., NE-1-12-12E1). The data set used in
this package includes three meridians (W1, E1, and E2); however, most
commonly searched for quarter sections use the East 1 (E1) or West 1 (W1)
meridians. If the meridian number is not included it will default to 1.
For example, a search for NW-36-89-11E will by default search for
NW-36-89-11E1 despite NW-36-89-11E2 existing in the data set.
Other land division types can have different naming conventions and include:
RL = River lot (e.g., RL-11-Oak Island)
Lot = Township lot (e.g., 10-54-27W1)
OT = Outer two mile lot (e.g., OT-11A-St. Clements)
PL = Parish lot (e.g., PL-R-St. Andrews)
SL = Settlement lot (e.g., SL-2-Roman Catholic Mission Property)
WL = Wood lot (e.g., WL-179-Portage La Prairie)
Examples
search_legal(x = c("NE-11-33-29W", "SW-20-2-1W"))
#> # A tibble: 2 × 4
#> legal type long lat
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 NE-11-33-29W1 Quarter -101. 51.8
#> 2 SW-20-2-1W1 Quarter -97.6 49.1