What have you found works best? Did you create two completely separate place hierarchies, or did you nest the PLSS information within an existing hierarchy? If you used a nested approach, did it make more sense to do that at the state level or under the county? I am still early enough in setting t…

Had to look up what a PLSS plat is. So, the answer is no. I suppose many of the places and locations I have added to my place database started out as a plat, but at the time I have added an event occurring there the location was known by an identifiable name. And if not by a location name, not enou…

[image] Cynwrite: Did you create two completely separate place hierarchies, or did you nest the PLSS information within an existing hierarchy? If you used a nested approach, did it make more sense to do that at the state level or under the county? I’ve tried it as a separate hierarchy under t…

[image] GeorgeWilmes: As far as I know, the PLSS townships never cross state boundaries That’s my layperson understating of it as well: that when the grid hits a state line or something like a lake that becomes a fractional township. Because of that, I’m debating on whether to list Townships…

You may be also interested in these (if you weren’t already aware): The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries has a download page for KMZ files: Download the AHCB data The BLM has a REST API that can give you KML for a given PLSS quarter-section of land. Currently when I draw farms, I eyeball …

I tried connecting these to gramps-connect, but the interface was flaky for some reason. I haven’t given up completely yet!

[image] GeorgeWilmes: You may be also interested in these Oh, I am SO interested! GIS is not my forte, so I am learning as I go, and was honestly about to convert the AHCB pdf download into a svg to try and get boundaries (which, let’s be honest, would have been mediocre at best). I had no…

I also tried using Gemini to create a KML for me. It was able to read the handwritten land patent just fine but couldn’t get the coordinates right, even when I gave it a specific coordinate pair to use as the centroid of the section for purposes of its calculations.

I had the same issue with Perplxity and ChatGPT. No matter how many times I build a specific one with instructions like “Your single most important rule: Aliquot descriptions routinely repeat the same cardinal direction, and that repetition is CORRECT. “The Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quar…

Has anyone set up Public Land Survey System (PLSS) plats in Gramps Places? If so

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hartenthaler September 16, 2026, 9:50pm 3

Have you seen Genealogy and (land) property - #10 by hartenthaler ?

Your plat was our Kataster.

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