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Domesday Book, England, 1086: Earliest historical record of 'county surveying' as an administrative function Table of Surveying, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, Volume 2. George Washington, freemason King Æthelstan and Saint Cuthbert John Smith 1624 map of Bermuda. A county surveyor is a public official in the United Kingdom and the United States ...
The Texas Land Survey System is often measured in Spanish Customary Units. The most important of these is the vara, which, while ambiguous in the past, was legally established to be exactly 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 inches (846.67 mm) long in June 1919. [2] The subdivision levels in Texas are as follows: [3]
Houston County: 225: Crockett: 1837: Nacogdoches County: Sam Houston (1793–1863), general of the Texan Revolution, commander at the Battle of San Jacinto and later president of the Republic of Texas, U.S. Senator and governor of the state of Texas 22,066: 1,231 sq mi (3,188 km 2) Howard County: 227: Big Spring: 1876: Bexar County
The Municipal Courts are the most active courts, with the County and District Courts handling most other cases and often sharing the same buildings. Administration is the responsibility of the Supreme Court, which is aided by the Texas Office of Court Administration, the Texas Judicial Council and the State Bar of Texas (the Texas Bar).
[5] [6] Daugherty stayed to oversee land sales in Meston's Houston office. [6] In 1894, the community was surveyed [5] [6] and recognized by Harris County. Surveyors named the town Dairy, Texas. [5] [6] The first two town settlers, Dr. John S. Magee and his wife, Alief Ozelda Magee, moved from Ellis County to Dairy the same year. [5] The ...
As Gillespie County surveyor, he pioneered dendrochronology at Fredericksburg during the drought of the late 1850s by comparing tree-ring sequences for dating natural events. [4] The Kuechler study was published in 1859 as "Das Klima von Texas" in Gustav Schleicher's Texas Staats-Zeitung and 1861 in the Texas Almanac .
Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, [1] making it the most populous county in Texas and the third-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston, the most populous city in Texas and fourth-most populous city in the United States. The county was ...