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  2. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    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. Google Earth - Wikipedia

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    Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.

  4. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Survey township - Wikipedia

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    Each 36-square-mile (about 93.2 km 2) township is divided into 36 sections of one square mile (640 acres, roughly 2.6 km 2) each. [1] The sections can be further subdivided for sale. The townships are referenced by a numbering system that locates the township in relation to a principal meridian (north-south) and a base line (east-west). For ...

  6. Tuckahoe (plantation) - Wikipedia

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    Eyre Crowe, Slaves Waiting for Sale - Richmond, Virginia, oil, 20¾ x 31½ inches Lefevre James Cranstone, Slave Auction, Virginia. Portions of the Randolph's Tuckahoe plantation were subdivided into smaller tracts and sold. Upon completion of an anticipated sale in 1842, enslaved people were to be put up for sale. [34]

  7. Acre - Wikipedia

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    In France, the traditional unit of area was the arpent carré, a measure based on the Roman system of land measurement. The acre was used only in Normandy (and neighbouring places outside its traditional borders), but its value varied greatly across Normandy, ranging from 3,632 to 9,725 square metres, with 8,172 square metres being the most ...

  8. Hectare - Wikipedia

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    The hectare (/ ˈ h ɛ k t ɛər,-t ɑːr /; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm 2), that is, 10,000 square metres (10,000 m 2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is about 0.405 hectares and one hectare contains about ...

  9. Google Street View coverage - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.

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