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Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries. It involves the physical delineation of property boundaries and determination of dimensions, areas and certain rights associated with properties.
Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States, 1973 - official manual for PLSS; Resources page of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management; National Land Information System (NILS) - cadastral records and land parcel information including GeoCommunicator below
U.S. Bureau of Land Management map showing the principal meridians of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The fourth principal meridian, set in 1815, [1] is the principal meridian for land surveys in northwestern Illinois and west-central Illinois, [2] and its 1831 [3] extension is the principal meridian for land surveys in Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota.
The second principal meridian, or Paoli Meridian, coincides with 86° 28′ [vague] of longitude west from Greenwich, starts from a point two and one half miles west of the confluence of the Little Blue and Ohio rivers, runs north to the northern boundary of Indiana, and, with the base line in latitude 38° 28′ 20″ [vague], governs the ...
The Dominion Land Survey is a similar cadastral survey conducted in Western Canada, begun in 1871 after the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Both cadastral surveys are made relative to principal meridian and baselines. These cadastral surveys divided the surveyed areas into townships. Some much earlier surveys in Ohio created 25 ...
"Cadastral Survey [San Bernardino Meridian]".U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on 2011-04-26 "Principal Meridians and Base Lines".U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
The surveyor then puts monuments on the corners of the new boundary. They might also find or resurvey the corners of the property monumented by prior surveys. Cadastral land surveyors are licensed by governments. The cadastral survey branch of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conducts most cadastral surveys in the United States. [21]
The practise of land administration is older than the presently used term. In The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State, mention is made of cadastral survey and subsequent tax collection in northern part of the Netherlands, initiated by an order in 1533. [8]