Calculating COGO area

This topic applies to ArcGIS for Desktop Standard and ArcGIS for Desktop Advanced only.

Steps:

1. Click the Edit tool on the Editor toolbar.
2. Click the line features for which you want to calculate an area.
Tip:

To select the line features surrounding a parcel polygon, you can select the polygon, then use the Select By Location dialog box. There are several different selection methods you can use, including the Share a Line Segment With method or the Are Completely Within method with a small buffer tolerance.

3. Click COGO Area on the COGO toolbar.

   The COGO Area dialog box appears and describes the area of the selected lines.