Requesting Section Definitions

TitleSCAN Web Section Definitions provide information about the Sections, Townships, and Ranges that have been defined in the plant.  Some TitleSCAN Web sites may not use sections and will instead post their acreage to arbs (see Requesting Arb Definitions for more detail).

For Townships and Ranges that are located in the center of the county, all sections are valid for posting.  In this situation a single definition entry can cover all 36 sections.  For example, the definition '*/3N/4E' defines all sections for Township 3 North and Range 4 East.  For Townships and Ranges on the edge of the county. only certain sections will be valid for posting.  In that circumstance the individual valid sections must be defined. An example of that would be an entry of '33/10N/16W'.

Parameters

NOTE:  Section values are almost always in the range of 1 to 36.  TitleSCAN can handle other values so contact us if you have higher numbered sections.  The Townships and Ranges can be entered with or without a direction indicator but we recommend using a direction for all entries if it is needed by any of the Townships or Ranges in a given county.

Sample

The searches below retrieve the section definition for Section 27, Township 3N, Range 4E in Livingston County.  Referring back to our list of functions in the section titled Primary DAO Functions, the web service call is 'GetSectionDefinitions' and that is shown in the first example below.  In the second example, the DAO Page request has 'QueryName=SectionDefinition' immediately following the question mark in the query statement.

DAO Web Service

NOTE:  'DAODataService' in the above example is the name given to a web reference.  Please refer to the section Using DAO Web Services which describes creating the web reference.  Also note that the Token parameter above will need to be obtained via a call to the 'DAOLoginService' (see the User Authentication Parameters section).
 

DAO Page Request

http://tsweb.titlescan.com/query.aspx?QueryName=SectionDefinition&CountyCode=L&Section=27/3N/4E&UserName=tsweb&UserCompany=tss&UserPassword=anywhere

IMPORTANT:  The UserName, UserCompany, and UserPassword parameters shown in the sample query above are example values only and will not work.  If you are developing software that uses the TitleSCAN Direct Access Option and wish to test that software using the TitleSCAN Web demonstration site at http://tsweb.titlescan.com, contact TitleSCAN Systems to obtain an account on that system.  When you obtain the account, you will be given UserName, UserCompany, and UserPassword values.  Substitute those values in the Query string above.
 

Result

The following is the XML result set.  The DAO Web Service request or the DAO Page Request will return this same result set.  Note that the returned definition has an asterisk for the section, so all sections are valid for this township and range.