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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.
The U.S. recognized for adjudication 295 grants in New Mexico, four of which extended into southern Colorado, and three grants entirely in southern Colorado. The land grants later judged by the U.S. to be legal ranged in size from 200 acres (81 ha) for Cañada Ancha (now a suburb of Santa Fe) to 1,714,765 acres (6,939.41 km 2) for the Maxwell ...
The Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4, south of Crestone, Colorado, was a large land grant made in 1860 by the United States to the heirs of the original Vegas Grandes Grant to the Baca family of New Mexico in Las Vegas, New Mexico. [1] [2] [3] Title to the grant in Las Vegas was clouded by a second grant of the same land. [3]
The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) was an American professional association representing the interests of those engaged in measuring and communicating geospatial data. [1] Originally, it was composed of four organizations: American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS) National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS)
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 ...
The Council’s members are the engineering and surveying licensure boards from all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These boards are divided into four geographic zones: Central, Northeast, Southern, Western. It is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.
The Rocky Mountains within Colorado contain 54 peaks that are 14,000 ft (4,300 m) or higher, known as fourteeners. [10] The mountains are timbered with conifers and aspen to the tree line, at an elevation of about 12,000 ft (3,700 m) in southern Colorado to about 10,500 ft (3,200 m) in northern Colorado; above this only alpine vegetation grows ...
The Maxwell Land grant has an area of 1,714,765 acres (6,939.41 km 2) in New Mexico and southern Colorado.The grant lands measure almost 60 miles (97 km) from north to south and 50 miles (80 km) from east to west, reaching from the Great Plains to the crest of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.