PLSS Townships in Salt Lake County maintained by the Salt Lake County Surveyor's Office.

Data represents Metro Townships created by the indiviual townships and their County Recorders offices.
These data were created for planimetric and cartigraphic display and analysis.Revisions: Metro Townships boundaries are revised as documents are filed with the Lt. Governor's Office.
Current thru Dec. 30, 2016

Salt Lake County Municipal Boundaries, including Cities, Metro Townships and Unincorporated areas.

PLSSTownship_GCDB is the first level of a hierarchical break down of the Public Land Survey System Rectangular surveys. In the Public Land Survey System a Township refers to the largest unit of PLSS that is normally six miles on a side. This data set represents the GIS Version of the Public Land Survey System. Updates are expected annually as horizontal control positions from published sources and global positioning system (GPS) observations are added. The primary source for the data is cadastral survey records housed by the BLM supplemented with local records and geographic control coordinates from states, counties as well as other federal agencies such as the USGS and USFS.