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The existence of section lines made property descriptions far more straightforward than the old metes and bounds system. The establishment of standard east-west and north-south lines ("township" and "range lines") meant that deeds could be written without regard to temporary terrain features such as trees, piles of rocks, fences, and the like, and be worded in the style such as "Lying and ...
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 ...
43 U.S.C. ch. 18—Survey of Public Lands; 43 U.S.C. ch. 19—Bounty Lands; 43 U.S.C. ch. 20—Reservations and Grants to States for Public Purposes; 43 U.S.C. ch. 21—Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads; 43 U.S.C. ch. 21A—Forfeiture Of Northern Pacific Railroad Indemnity Land Grants
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 public land survey systems carried out and maintained in the United States and Canada have influenced and affected how the modern Mexican government licenses and regulates surveying, and how it has undertaken the monumental task of the physical surveying, mapping, and cataloging of public and private land throughout the country.
The Public Lands Survey System is a cadastral survey of the United States originating in legislation from 1785, after international recognition of the United States. 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.
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