[GIS] How to create a square polygon or buffer with quadrants in ArcGIS

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I have 32 points than I need to create a 2 mile square polygon around, and break each polygon into 4 quadrants. I've tried a few things, including creating an MBR(Minimum Bounding Rectangle) around a standard buffer, but those don't output perfect squares for some reason, which doesn't necessarily totally matter, but I hit a wall when I try to break the square polygons into quadrants.

I'm using the NAD 1983 UTM Zone 12N coordinate system for the map. The Geodatabase for my data is GCS_North_American_1983. I'm using ArcGIS 10.3.1

Here's an example of what I generally need.
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Best Answer

Depending on the way the map on your screen is projected, the resulting shape may not look perfectly square. See here.

Difficult work-around would be to split your polygon into lines, get the midpoints of the lines, draw lines between them, merge the result into a polygon, and then use that to clip the original square. But there must be a better way.

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