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  2. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    This 1988 BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the Public Land Survey System.. 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.

  3. List of principal and guide meridians and base lines of the ...

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    Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.

  4. Cadastral surveying - Wikipedia

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    The initial survey operations are concentrated on locating monuments. Property corners may be marked by iron pins, metal survey markers, iron pipes, and other features possibly establishing a line of possession will be located. When the approximate positions for the boundaries of the property have been located, a traverse is run around the ...

  5. Boundary marker - Wikipedia

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    A boundary marker, border marker, boundary stone, or border stone is a robust physical marker that identifies the start of a land boundary or the change in a boundary, especially a change in direction of a boundary. [1] There are several other types of named border markers, known as boundary trees, [2] [3] pillars, monuments, obelisks, and ...

  6. Butts and bounds - Wikipedia

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    Field boundary in the United Kingdom. Butts and bounds, shortened form for "abuttals and boundaries" of a property, are the boundary lines delineated between plots of land, usually those which define the end of an estate, as used in legal deeds, titles, etc. These are usually descriptive features in the property, such as trees, outcroppings of ...

  7. What's in our names? How our streets and landmarks tell our ...

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    The family's original 640-acre property, stretching a half-mile east along Miccosukee Road, once encompassed all of today's Leon High School property and was filled with crops and cows.

  8. Indian meridian - Wikipedia

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    The Indian meridian, in longitude 97° 14′ 30″ west from Greenwich, extends from Red River to the south boundary of Kansas, and, with the base line in latitude 34° 30′ north, governs the surveys in Oklahoma east of 100° west longitude from Greenwich (all of Oklahoma except the Oklahoma panhandle). This line was chosen arbitrarily as ...

  9. List of tripoints of U.S. states - Wikipedia

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    Brass marker with the shapes of the three states is located in a monument box beneath the surface of a rural road. Was set in 1999 [20] and is referenced by a granite marker 20 feet to the east on the Michigan-Ohio line. [21] Iowa: Minnesota: South Dakota