[GIS] New Mexico Township and Range Shapefile

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I'm having difficulty locating a shapefile for New Mexico PLSS Townships and Ranges. Does anyone have recommendations on where to find this data.

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The USDA Geospatial Data Gateway has PLSS township/range shapefiles by state, as well as a ton of other excellent free data.

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I am not sure how you are going to know or check the shoreline clipped aspect of your question.
Esri has some datasets that are described as detailed (dtl).
However you would need to aquire the Data Distribution Application (DDA) [see page 8 of the pdf] to get them into shapefile as they originate as *.sdc format.

Data is provided in Esri’s compressed, direct-read, high-performance Smart Data Compression (SDC) format

dtl_wat, dtl_riv, dtl_cnty_ln, etc.

As you don't describe the use I would perhaps suggest using the esri services available online.
The esri data-and-maps is also described here and in pdf along with redistribution rights.
The download search begins here.
Also just found the high resolution shoreline data, and a great blog on how it can be used.

Using TRS (Township, Range, Section) Data for Geocoding

The primary industry that uses this is the real estate industry, and planning and government. The TRS system is the basis for the legal descriptions that describe the locations of land parcels in most of the United States.

Legal Description - Wikipedia

There are a number of ways that the bounds of a land parcel may be described, but at some point, whether at the parcel level, or subdivision level, it is tied back into the TRS system. The caveat to this is that it mostly applies to land west of the Mississippi aside from Texas, the states bordering the Great Lakes, and the southern states aside from Georgia.

There are likely other uses, but I think this is the primary, and most critical in the context of property ownership rights in the US.

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