Identification Information

Title Bureau of Land Management Subsurface Mineral Ownership (2014)

Date 2014-03-28

Date Type Publication

Cited Responsible Party

Organization Name Bureau of Land Management - New Mexico State Office

Role identify

Presentation Form vector digital data

Abstract This data was collected by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in New Mexico at both the New Mexico State Office and at the various field offices. This dataset is meant to depict the federal mineral (or subsurface) interest of land parcels within New Mexico. No attempt is made to depict the mineral interest of non-federal entities. BLM's Master Title Plats are the official land records of the federal government and serve as the primary data source for depiction of federal mineral interest lands. Auxilliary source are referenced, as well, for the depiction of federal mineral interest. Collection of this dataset began in the 1980's using the BLM's ADS software to digitize information at the 1:24,000 scale. In the mid to late 1990's the data was converted from ADS to ArcInfo software and merged into tiles of one degree of longitude by one half degree of latitude. These tiles were regularly updated. The tiles were merged into a statewide coverage. The source geodatabase for this shapefile was created by loading the merged ArcInfo coverage into a personal geodatabase. The geodatabase data were snapped to a more accurate GCDB derived land network, where available. In areas where GCDB was not available the data were snapped to digitized PLSS. This shapefile has been created by exporting the geodatabase feature class.

Purpose To provide a current delineation of federal mineral (subsurface) ownership in the state of New Mexico.

Data Set Credit U.S. Bureau of Land Management - New Mexico State Office

Status Complete

Point of Contact

Individual Name

Organization Name Bureau of Land Management - New Mexico State Office

Position Name Geosciences Team Lead

Role Point of contact

Voice 505-954-2000

Facsimile

Address

Delivery Point PO Box 27115
City Santa Fe
Administrative Area NM
Postal Code 87502
Country

Electronic Mail Address

Maintenance and Update Frequency As needed

Descriptive Keywords Federal minerals, Minerals, Mineral interest, Mineral ownership, Mineral management, Subsurface

Access Constraints none

Use Constraints No warranty is made by the Bureau of Land Management as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data for individual use or aggregate use with other data, or for purposes not intended by BLM. Spatial information may not meet National Map Accuracy Standards. This information may be updated without notification.

Language English

Topic Category planningCadastre

Extent

Geographic Bounding Box

West Bound -109.049975
East Bound -103.002122
North Bound 37.000262
South Bound 31.332264

Temporal Extent

DateTime 2014-02-01

Data Quality Information

Logical Consistency Report Original dataset is in ESRI geodatabase format (SDE). The data were built to check for topological errors and verified that there were none. Also, data were verified that no label errors existed.

Completeness Report The datasest is considered to be a complete picture of the federal mineral (subsurface) ownership on land in the state of New Mexico. Every effort is made to reference official, federal land records No effort is made to track non-federal mineral interests, unless they return to federal ownership.

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Source Information

Source Citation

Source Scale Denominator

Type of Source Media None

Source Time Period of Content

DateTime 2012
Source Currentness Reference Publication date

Source Citation Abbreviation Master Title Plats

Source Contribution Master Title Plats These are the Bureau of Land Management's official record of title for all federal lands. They provide the basis for federal mineral interest in this dataset.

Process Step

Process Description Federal mineral ownership data from individual 1:100,000 map series tiles were merged, edgematched and built in ArcInfo coverage format.
Process Date 2005-01-01
Process Time
Process Contact

Process Step

Process Description Coverage was converted to personal geodatabase
Process Date 2005-05-26
Process Time
Process Contact

Process Step

Process Description Personal geodatabase imported into SDE geodatabase.
Process Date 2006-11-01
Process Time
Process Contact

Process Step

Process Description Collection of mineral ownership data in northeastern New Mexico is completed.
Process Date 2006-08-06
Process Time
Process Contact

Process Step

Process Description Shapefile was downloaded from BLM and reprojected from 1983 Albers to Geographic WGS84 for ingest into RGIS.

Process Date 2014-03-26

Process Time

Process Contact

Individual Name

Organization Name Earth Data Analysis Center

Position Name Clearinghouse Manager

Role Point of contact

Voice 505-277-3622 ext. 230

Facsimile 505-277-3614

Address

Delivery Point MSC01 1110
Delivery Point 1 University of New Mexico
City Albuquerque
Administrative Area NM
Postal Code 87131-0001
Country USA

Electronic Mail Address clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu

Metadata Reference Information

File Identifier d8c7d68d-c53a-4f49-bddb-12ffb5e21a45

Metadata Language English

Hierarchy Level Dataset

Date Stamp 2025-01-14

Metadata Standard Name ISO 19115:2003

Metadata Standard Version 1.0

Metadata Contact

Individual Name

Organization Name Earth Data Analysis Center

Position Name Clearinghouse Manager

Role Point of contact

Voice 505-277-3622 ext. 230

Facsimile 505-277-3614

Address

Delivery Point MSC01 1110
Delivery Point 1 University of New Mexico
City Albuquerque
Administrative Area NM
Postal Code 87131-0001
Country USA

Electronic Mail Address clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu

Bureau of Land Management Subsurface Mineral Ownership (2014)

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