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Figure 1. This BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the PLSS.. The following are the principal and guide meridians and base lines of the United States, with the year established and a brief summary of what areas' land surveys are based on each.
The Sixth principal meridian at 97°22′08″W extends from the baseline coincident with the north boundary of Kansas in latitude 40°N south through the state to its south boundary in latitude 37°N and north through Nebraska to the Missouri River and governs the surveys in Kansas and Nebraska; the surveys in Wyoming except those referred to the Wind River meridian and base line, which ...
This BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the PLSS.. In the United States Public Land Survey System, a principal meridian is the principal north–south line used for survey control in a large region, and which divides townships between east and west.
Principal meridian (PM): A true meridian running through an initial point, which together with the baseline form the highest level framework for all rectangular surveys in a given area. The list of all principal meridians is given below. Public domain (land): Land owned and managed by the Federal government. Synonymous with public lands.
6th meridian may refer to: 6th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian; 6th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian; The Sixth Principal Meridian in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming, United States, 97°22'08" west of Greenwich; The Sixth Meridian of the Dominion Land Survey ...
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US 81 started out as the Meridian Highway, an auto trail organized in 1911 to connect Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to the Gulf of Mexico near the Sixth Principal Meridian. [5] The southern terminus, initially at Galveston , [ 6 ] was later moved to Laredo , where it would connect with a proposed extension to Mexico City (later built as part of ...