The Texas Land Survey is used to describe land parcels within the state of Texas in a fashion similar to the Public Land Survey System. This layer is from the summer quarter update of 2014.This layer can be used to identify townships and ranges within the Public Land Survey System. This dataset is intended to assist users in locating and analyzing United States oil and gas field data and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.