Q: How to clip grid (based on points) leaving whole cells only using ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop? I am trying to clip a polygon grid based on a point layer as well as another polygon. 
Basically I have a polygon grid and a layer of points that fall in the center of most of the cells. I want to keep only the grid cells that have a point within them. In addition, I have a county boundary polygon (partially shown in orange) that I want to use to further clip the grid, but I want to keep whole cells only. It's OK if the cells fall partially outside of the county boundary as I want to make sure I have full coverage of the entire county. 
I am slightly familiar with ModelBuilder if that is the best way to go. 


A: To do this I would:


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*Use Clip on your points first

*Use Select Layer By Location using your "clipped points feature class" against your "grid feature class" and INTERSECT as the spatial relationship

*Right-click on the "grid feature class" layer in the Table of Contents and Export | Export Data
