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    The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling...
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  • the layout of the Public Land Survey System used in the United States, but has several differences. The DLS is the dominant survey method in the Prairie...
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  • Spanish land grants, does not use the Public Land Survey System (also known as the Section Township Range and the Jeffersonian System). Land grants from...
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    Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions...
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    In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), containing 640...
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    The lot and block survey system is a method used in the United States and Canada to locate and identify land, particularly for lots in densely populated...
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    A survey township, sometimes called a Congressional township or just township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System and by Canada's...
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  • Geodesy Public Land Survey System, the method of determining township boundaries in the USA Construction engineering, a primary use of Land Survey products...
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    Homestead Act of 1862. The Land Ordinance established the basis for the Public Land Survey System. The initial surveying was performed by Thomas Hutchins...
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    enactment of the Land Ordinance of 1785, which created the Public Land Survey System, the Treasury Department had already overseen the survey of the Northwest...
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    Surveying in North America is heavily influenced by the United States Public lands survey system. It inherits the basis of its land tenure from the United...
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    Real property (redirect from Land for sale)
    recorded in the files of the County Engineer). The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to...
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    right down to the present day. Category:Historic surveying landmarks in the United States Public Land Survey System Washington as Public Land Surveyor...
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    Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey is the point from which the United States in 1786 began the formal survey of the lands known then as the...
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    divided into 640-acre numbered sections (260 ha) according to the Public Land Survey System; odd-numbered plots were given to private railroad companies,...
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    Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. In the Public Land Survey System, the township is survey area township 8 north, range 7 east. The population...
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  • Earth Point (category Land surveying systems)
    the United States Public Land Survey System onto Google Earth. Township and Range - maps the United States Public Land Survey System onto Google Earth...
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    survey information is often a base element in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or Land Information Systems (LIS) used to assess and manage land and...
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    follows the original survey route marked by Augustus Jones after the Between the Lakes Purchase in 1792. Public Land Survey System (United States) List...
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  • no other land survey system (such as the US Public Land Survey System), parcels are the most reliable way to describe a particular area of land. This is...
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  • Metropolitan Statistical Area. Under the United States Public Land Survey System it is a survey township identified as Township 149 North, Range 42 West...
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  • may refer to: Public Land Survey System, a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels Primary Life Support System, the life-support...
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    of 400 sq mi, but is not 20 miles square. In the United States Public Land Survey System, "square mile" is an informal synonym for section. Rowlett, Russ...
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    townships are divided into a 6-by-6 grid of 36 sections. In the U.S. Public Land Survey System, Section 1 of a township is in the northeast corner, and the numbering...
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  • the genomes of polyploid descendants Aliquot part, in the US Public Land Survey System, a subdivision of a section based upon an even division by distances...
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  • established the basis for the Public Land Survey System. The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided a method for settling that land and establishing government...
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    Red River Rebellion (category Surveying of Canada)
    the land according to the square township system used in the Public Land Survey System. The Métis, led by Riel, prevented McDougall from entering the...
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    first years of surveying were completed by trial and error; once the territory of Ohio had been surveyed, a modern public land survey system had been developed...
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    Seven Ranges (category Surveying of the United States)
    Seven Ranges) was a land tract in eastern Ohio that was the first tract to be surveyed in what became the Public Land Survey System. The tract is 42 miles...
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    Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory (category United States federal public land legislation)
    Kentucky River. This act, and those that followed evolved into the Public Land Survey System. Rufus Putnam was appointed to the office in 1797, and held it...
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