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    • BLM NM Lands Surface Management Agency

    Metadata Updated: March 3, 2026

    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 surface owner or manager of the land parcels. In the vast majority of land parcels, they will be one and the same. However, there are instances where the owner and manager of the land surface are not the same. When this occurs, the manager of the land is usually indicated. BLM's Master Title Plats are the official land records of the federal government and serve as the primary data source for depiction of all federal lands. Information from State of New Mexico is the primary source for the depiction of all state lands. Auxiliary source are referenced, as well, for the depiction of all lands. 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. In 2006, the personal geodatabase was loaded into an enterprise geodatabase (SDE). This shapefile has been created by exporting the feature class from SDE.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 25, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 3, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI BLM DCAT-US

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 25, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 3, 2026
    Publisher Bureau of Land Management
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://blm-egis.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=2e245db5b0b4466a93f3a7c233536157&sublayer=0
    Data First Published 2025-04-08T18:47:18Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-08T18:51:42Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:04
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://ddi.doi.gov/blm-data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 6d971312-261c-4831-963a-181a3bc8aa8a
    Harvest Source Id ceb4b469-e13a-40f5-af40-5fe065f74ffa
    Harvest Source Title DOI BLM DCAT-US
    Homepage URL https://gbp-blm-egis.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BLM-EGIS::blm-nm-lands-surface-management-agency
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -109.2626,37.0358,-102.884,31.3146
    Program Code 010:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5476ebb274456a4d787639e41a33922fd043df1b8a28c4202145236adaf8f5ed
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -109.2626, 37.0358, -109.2626, 31.3146, -102.884, 31.3146, -102.884, 37.0358, -109.2626, 37.0358}

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