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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Genesee Township, Michigan (section Public facilities)
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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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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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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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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surveys in Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota. It is part of the Public Land Survey System that covers most of the United States. The fourth principal meridian...
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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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Badger Township, Polk County, Minnesota (section Native land cessions and incorporation into United States territory)
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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Line and Meridian, Arizona Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point, West Virginia Public Land Survey System List of principal and guide meridians and base...
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Cadastre (redirect from Cadastral land surveys)
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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The Boise meridian is one of the 35 principal meridians of the Public Land Survey System of the United States. Adopted in 1867, its longitude is 116° 23′...
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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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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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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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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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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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Diablo in California at W 121° 54.845. Established under the U.S. Public Land Survey System, it is used to describe lands in most of northern California and...
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Land surveying in Kentucky is the practice of land surveying in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Boundary Survey: In this type of survey, property corners...
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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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