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A Society of County Surveyors for Scotland was formed in 1931, although this was an extension of the earlier Association of Road Surveyors of Scotland founded in 1884, a year earlier than its English counterpart. In June 1937 it was agreed that they should join with their English and Welsh counterparts.
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 Sangamon County surveyor, John Calhoun, then offered Lincoln a job as deputy surveyor due to the high volume of resurveying. As deputy surveyor, Lincoln surveyed five towns, four roads, and thirty properties. The first was the plat for Huron, a proposed town 30 miles (48 km) North of Springfield that never came to be.
John Sellers (1728 – February 2, 1804) was an American scientist, politician and surveyor from Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, then a unicameral legislature, representing Chester County from 1767 to 1771.
The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) was an American professional association representing the interests of those engaged in measuring and communicating geospatial data. [1] Originally, it was composed of four organizations: American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS) National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS)
On October 5, 1781, Smith was appointed "Assistant Deputy Surveyor" in the Southern Department of the Continental Army under Thomas Hutchins. At the war's end, Smith moved to what is now Sumner County, Tennessee, to claim the land grant for his military service. As county surveyor, he surveyed what became the site of the town of Nashville ...
He was the principal surveyor of the Virginia Military District from 1783 until 1819. [7] Anderson Township is named after him, as is Clough Creek . [ 3 ] His first wife was Elizabeth Clark, sister of George Rogers Clark and William Clark . [ 2 ]
James Thompson (1789 – October 6, 1872) was an American surveyor who created the first plat of Chicago. Born in South Carolina, Thompson moved to Kaskaskia in southern Illinois as a young man and lived in the area for the rest of his life, working primarily as a surveyor.