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State boundary; Railroad district (12 total, county boundaries) County; In Texas, the highest level of land subdivision is the boundary of the state itself. Below this are the Texas railroad districts, of which there are 12. These are Spanish grants, surveyed on the "metes and bounds" system of measurement, and are of irregular shape and size.
Montague was elected surveyor of the Fannin Land District in 1854. He was also elected Cooke county commissioner in 1858 and 1862. [2] [3] During the Mexican–American War, Montague served in the 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment, under the command of William C. Young. He moved to Cooke County by 1849.
This 1988 BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the 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.
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 ...
Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists ... Texas County and District Retirement System; Texas Court of ...
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. [5]
Emory Rains (1800–1878), a state senator and surveyor of the future county 12,986: 259 sq mi (671 km 2) Randall County: 381: Canyon: 1876: Bexar County: Horace Randal, a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War 148,255: 914 sq mi (2,367 km 2) Reagan County: 383: Big Lake: 1903: Tom Green County
Erath County (/ ˈ iː r æ θ /) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the United States Census bureau its population was 42,545 in 2020. [1] The county seat is Stephenville. [2] The county is named for George Bernard Erath, an early surveyor and a soldier at the Battle of San Jacinto.