A cadastral survey plan is basically a property boundary survey.
Cadastral Survey is an operational program within the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior whose mission and focus include:
* Performing legal boundary surveys for the Federal Government. This includes consultation and boundary determination expertise for USFS, Park Service, Corps of Engineers, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, etc
* Steward of PLSS records for all active Public Land States, descendant from original General Land Office, or the GLO, the creators of the Public Land Survey System.
* Currently maintains offices in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, GCDB Denver, Eastern States, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington D.C. and Wyoming.
* Produces and maintains the primary land tenure records: the survey field notes and plats.
* Is a leader in developing spatial data as a basis for National Land Information System. This includes a large data collection efforts which are underway, known as the GCDB or Geographic Coordinate Data Base Project. This is the largest project in the world for the development of records based geographic spatial framework.
What is Cadastral?
The term comes from Latin base term Cadastre referring to a registry of lands. Cadastral Surveying is surveying having to do with determining and defining land ownership and boundaries.
Seems like a pretty boring thing perhaps? Well, a lot of people think surveys are relatively unimportant until they find they have located many hundreds of thousands of dollars of improvements, buildings, etc. on someone else’s land. Suddenly the value of knowing where your land is comes into perspective.