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  2. Metes and bounds - Wikipedia

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    These include West Virginia, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee and Vermont. Because Texas was an independent republic prior to statehood, its land system is primarily metes and bounds. Election constituency boundaries continue to be described by the use of metes and bounds, even in jurisdictions where land plats are not otherwise based upon metes and ...

  3. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    The metes and bounds system was used to describe a town of a generally rectangular shape, 4 to 6 miles (6.4 to 9.7 km) on a side. Within this boundary, a map or plat was maintained that showed all the individual lots or properties. There are some difficulties with this system: Irregular shapes for properties make for much more complex descriptions.

  4. List of free PC games - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Windows: March 10, 2020 March 10, 2020 Free to Play: Card Hunter: Blue Manchu Blue Manchu Card Game, Turn-based strategy Web browser, Microsoft Windows, macOS Cart Life: Castle of the Winds: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead: Cave Story: Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya Metroidvania: Microsoft Windows [15] Command & Conquer ...

  5. Boundary (real estate) - Wikipedia

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    A unit of real estate or immovable property is limited by a legal boundary (sometimes also referred to as a property line, lot line or bounds). The boundary (in Latin: limes ) may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a wall, or similar, but essentially, a legal boundary is a conceptual entity, a social construct ...

  6. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.

  7. Proton (software) - Wikipedia

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    It is a collection of software and libraries combined with a patched version of Wine to improve performance and compatibility with Windows games. Proton is designed for integration into the Steam client as "Steam Play". [3] It is officially distributed through the client, although third-party forks can be manually installed.

  8. History of surveying in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Most of all, the proposed new capital city, bearing Washington's name, needed to be surveyed. A two-man team would survey what became the District of Columbia in 1791. The first was Benjamin Banneker, a free ex-slave, who learned to read, write, and do the math from his grandmother. Banneker would go on to be a leading astronomer, mathematician ...

  9. Talk:Metes and bounds - Wikipedia

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    Metes and Bounds are primarily used for states that were a part of the original thirteen colonies or that like maine were split off from them. The most important thing about deeds given in metes and bounds is that they always go from corner to corner in a direction a given distance. A corner is generally marked with a monument.