These tutorials teach you how to draw a township and range map for the state of Louisiana as used by land surveyors.
The tutorials are used in the Civil, Survey, and Mapping Dept. of the South Louisiana Community College as taught during the Spring Semesters.
=0.0= ADMINSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
-0.1- Role with dates of tests
-0.2- Syllabus
-0.3- Academic Calendar
=1=PROJECT MAPS
-1.1- GIS Louisiana Township and Range Map – Example Instructor Map
-1.2- GIS Louisiana Township and Range Map- Example Student Map
-1.3- GIS Lafayette Parish Benchmark Maps
-1.4- Hi-Lited Louisiana Highway Map (Example)
-1.5- United States Outline Map – completed student example
-1.6- United States Outline Map – to be completed by students
-1.7-Louisiana Map – Parish Names, random number index – No answer key
-1.8-Louisiana Map – Parish Names, random number index – With answer key
1.9-Louisiana Map – Parish Names & Seat, random number index – No answer key
-1.10-Louisiana Parish Map Names & Seat, random number index – with answer key
-1.11- Louisiana Outline Parish Map – with names
-1.12- Louisiana Outline Parish Map – without names
-1.13- List of Parish Names sorted alphabetically with names of Parish Seats
-1.14- List of Parish Seats sorted alphabetically with names of Parishes
=2= TEST
-2.1- Test#1 (2020) for practice – Screenshots covering Videos 01 to 04 and 07
-2.2- Test#1 (2020) for practice – Students review a test map and draw it.
=3=VIDEO TUTORIALS
There are 14 tutorials with video and audio showing how the files are used to create the completed MXD files as plotted to the pdf file.
01_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_How_to_setup_township_range_map_1x0
02_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_how_to_convert_city_limits_to_a_point_1x0
03_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_How_to_create_centroid_vary_in_size_by_population_1x0
04_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_how_to_fromat_roadway_colors_1x0
05_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_how_to_make_an_outline_of_the_State_of_Louisiana_1x0
06_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_how_to_clip_roadways_external_to_state_state_of_Louisiana_1x0
07_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_how_to_color_parishes_by_French_descent_1x0
08_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_how_to_add_waters_1x0
09_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_how_to_join_an_excel_sheet_table_to_a_layer_1x0
10_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_how_to_format_townships_&_parishes_1x0
11_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_how_to_create_north_arrow_&_scale_bars_in_feet_and_inches_1x0
12_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_How_to_format_the_legend
13_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_How_to_create_a_title_block
14_ARC_GIS_Tutorial_How_to_plot_the_map_to_pdf_1x0
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The class policies and the academic calendar along with a copy of the the class role. The dates of the tests, holidays, and regular class periods are shown.
Access all of the GIS directories as described below, select the files you need and then download them.
Note that the format of most of the files are ESRI shape files, of which between 3 to 8 separate files compose a single GIS layer. If you require a layer, please download all of the files for that layer by highlight all of the files with the same name, but with different extensions.
All of the roads in shape files as differentiated into major federal and state roadways as well as interstates. The roadways are show for Louisiana and surrounding states as well as just Louisiana.
The Louisiana state outline is used to clip the roadways from the surrounding states and to create a separate layer for only Louisiana state roadways.
The populated place files are taken form the 2010 census files in the form of points and polygons.
The parishes are taken form the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) as available in 2010.
The township maps are polygons showing there the Louisiana Public Land Survey System (PLSS) as used by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) in 2002. There are towels ESRI layers: one with the geography, but not no labels and another with the geography and the labels showing township and section.
The township maps with only geography can be joined to the tables in this directory so that each township can be labeled.
Louisiana has two separate baselines (east to west) and meridians (north to south) to track the numbering of the townships and ranges. The Louisiana baseline and meridian intersects near Lone Pine, Louisiana in the Parish of Evangeline, west of the Mississippi River. The Saint Helena baseline is found in East Feliciana Parish near the town of Norwood, east of the Mississippi River.
The MXD files are used to format the shape files. Note that the version of these Arc Map files is in 10.4. You can open these files with later releases of Arc Map with please numbers (10.4, 10.5, 10.6 …); but you cannot open the files with earlier versions (10.3, 10.2, 10.1 …).
There are four versions number form 1×0 to 4×0 that show variously levels of completion.
The waterway files are taken form the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) polygon files of the Louisiana state waterbodies. This is an official layer indicating where Louisiana collects oil royalties from beneath these waterways.
The city or town limits of municipalities in the south Louisiana region known as Acadiana.
The pdf file is the completed maps showing the project map as formatted using the MXD file numbered 4×0 as described above.
Other files include examples used during class related to the classification and measurement of mapped data.
Geodetic benchmarks in Louisiana.
14_US Bureau of Census Roadway Maps
The Louisiana State roadway files developed in 2010 by the US Census Bureau to located residences.
The surveyor logo used on the Louisiana Township and Section Map
The US map of States and the Louisiana map of parishes are provided both in completed formats as well as incomplete formats for students.
The zip file has all of the files used in these tutorials.
The zip file has all of the files used in these tutorials.
The scanned instructor’s maps is an example of the class project to be completed by each student. The instructor’s map was hand colored showing the parishes, culture areas, parishes, and parish seats. Additionally, a high resolution scans of the same is placed in this directory for use and distribution of the students.
A map showing how to create a map of Lafayette Parish showing the location of NOAA benchmarks, which are monumented and in good order.
A zipped file that contains the 2010 census block for Acadiana (Lafayette and adjoining Parishes – Acadia, Vermilion, Iberia, St. Martin, and St. Landry). The census blocks have data including total population, race, gender/sex, hispanic descent, and housing units as well as cross classification of these variables such as black home ownership and persons per household.