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  2. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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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. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...

  3. Albanian Geological Survey - Wikipedia

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    The Albanian Geological Survey (Albanian: Shërbimi Gjeologjik Shqiptar – SHGJSH) is an advisory institution of the Albanian Government which carries out its activities in the field of land sciences throughout the territory of Albania.

  4. Land survey - Wikipedia

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    Surveying, which outlines techniques and principles of land survey; Cartography, the process by which land survey information is used to create maps; Geodesy; Public Land Survey System, the method of determining township boundaries in the USA; Construction engineering, a primary use of Land Survey products

  5. Surveying - Wikipedia

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    Public Land Survey System, a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels; Survey township, a square unit of land, six miles (~9.7 km) on a side, done by the U.S. Public Land Survey System; Construction surveying, the locating of structures relative to a reference line, used in the construction of buildings, roads, mines ...

  6. Category:Land surveying systems - Wikipedia

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    Public Land Survey System; T. Texas land survey system This page was last edited on 19 December 2022, at 18:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  7. Fifth principal meridian - Wikipedia

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    The Fifth Principal Meridian, also known as the "5th Principal Meridian" and "PM 05", is a principal meridian survey line used in the United States for land claims in the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). It was first surveyed in 1815. The meridian, a north-south line, starts from the old mouth of the Arkansas River and runs north.

  8. Dominion Land Survey - Wikipedia

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    The Dominion Land Survey System still differed from the Public Land System because it contained road allowances. [6] The Dominion Land Survey was enormous. Around 178,000,000 acres (720,000 km 2) are estimated to have been subdivided into quarter sections, 27 million of which were surveyed by 1883 (14 years after the system's inception). The ...

  9. Lot and block survey system - Wikipedia

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    The system is the most recent of the three main survey systems. It began to be widely employed in the United States in the 19th century when cities began to expand into the surrounding farmland. The owners of a large tract of land would create a plat and subdivide the tract into a series of smaller lots to be sold to buyers. This subdivision ...