enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. 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 ...

  3. Land survey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_survey

    Surveying, which outlines techniques and principles of land survey; Cartography, the process by which land survey information is used to create maps; Geodesy; Public Land Survey System, the method of determining township boundaries in the USA; Construction engineering, a primary use of Land Survey products

  4. Surveying - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying

    Public Land Survey System, a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels; Survey township, a square unit of land, six miles (~9.7 km) on a side, done by the U.S. Public Land Survey System; Construction surveying, the locating of structures relative to a reference line, used in the construction of buildings, roads, mines ...

  5. History of surveying in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_surveying_in...

    The Public Land Survey System was mainly involved in overseeing the surveying of these vast new swaths of private lands along the ever-shifting frontier, while Federal Organizations such as the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the United States General Land Office, among several others, dealt with surveying all the lands deemed ...

  6. Category:Land surveying systems - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Category:Land_surveying_systems

    This page was last edited on 19 December 2022, at 18:26 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  7. Surveying in North America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying_In_North_America

    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.

  8. Dominion Land Survey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Land_Survey

    The Dominion Land Survey System still differed from the Public Land System because it contained road allowances. [6] The Dominion Land Survey was enormous. Around 178,000,000 acres (720,000 km 2) are estimated to have been subdivided into quarter sections, 27 million of which were surveyed by 1883 (14 years after the system's inception). The ...

  9. Catholic Church in Albania - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Albania

    Distribution of Catholic believers in Albania as according to the 2011 census. According to the 2011 Albanian census, 10.03% of the population affiliated with Catholicism , while 56.7% were Muslims , 13.79% undeclared, 6.75% Orthodox believers, 5.49% other, 2.5% Atheists, 2.09% Bektashis and 0.14% other Christians.