G.L.O. Survey Field Notes, Digitized & Geo-Located

The same plats and field notes the BLM uses — searchable by township. OCR any field note page, map every survey call on the PLSS grid, then step into Street View and walk the same lines the original surveyors did — the ravines, creeks, and roads they described in the 1800s are often still there today.

How It Works

1. Upload Field Notes

   Scan a page of handwritten GLO field notes and upload the image.

2. OCR & Parse

   AI reads the handwriting and extracts survey calls with bearings, distances, and descriptions.

3. Map, Walk & Export

   Survey calls are placed on an interactive map. Open Street View at any call to walk the surveyor's line, then export to KML, CSV, or PDF.

Features

• Cascading Search

  Filter by State, County, Township, and Range with smart dropdowns. Access over 106,000 BLM field note records.

• Interactive PLSS Map

  Click the map to select townships. BLM PLSS boundaries displayed over aerial imagery with page counts and document links.

• AI-Powered OCR

  Upload scanned field notes and AI reads the cursive handwriting, extracting survey calls, bearings, and witness trees.

• Automatic Geo-Location

  Survey calls are placed on an interactive map with satellite, street, and topo base layers.

• BLM Records Access

  Direct links to original plat images, field note documents, and survey metadata from the BLM official archives.

• Fraud Detection

  Cross-reference terrain descriptions and elevations against actual ground data to identify potentially fraudulent field notes within a township.

• Walk the Surveyor's Line

  Open Street View at any geolocated call — creeks, ravines, road crossings — with the camera pointed the same direction the original surveyor was walking. The terrain they described in the 1800s is often still visible today.

• Corner Monument Street View

  Where Google Street View imagery exists near a PLSS corner, open an interactive panorama and pan to find corner posts, rebar caps, and survey disks on the ground. Imagery history going back years is included where available.

Search the full BLM plat and field note archive, OCR any page, map every survey call — and walk the original survey lines in Street View.