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Congress Lands in Ohio. The Congress Lands was a group of land tracts in Ohio that made land available for sale to members of the general public through land offices in various cities, and through the United States General Land Office. It consisted of three groups of surveys: [1] Ohio River Base Congress Lands East of Scioto River
From this location, Ohio Company surveyors plotted the company's entire purchase in southeastern Ohio, more than 900,000 acres (360,000 ha) in total, under the direction of Rufus Putnam as the company's chief. [3] The Ohio Company Office as seen in 1903 on Washington Street between Front Street and Second Street [4]
Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.
The Donation Tract was a land tract in southern Ohio that was established by the Congress in the late 18th century to buffer Ohio Company lands against local indigenous people. Congress gave 100-acre (0.40 km 2 ) lots to men who settled on the land.
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 ...
The pink area is the First Purchase of the Ohio Company. The green rectangle within it is the College Lands set aside for university support. The directors of the Ohio Company selected townships 8 and 9 of the 14th range of the Ohio River survey at a meeting on December 16, 1795 [3] for maintenance of the
Survey stakes are markers surveyors use in surveying projects to prepare job sites, mark out property boundaries, and provide information about claims on natural resources like timber and minerals. The stakes can be made from wood, metal, plastic, and other materials and typically come in a range of sizes and colors for different purposes.
Congress Lands in this ceded area were surveyed 1806-07. This survey had six mile square townships and continued the range, township, and section numbering system of the Ohio River Survey, section numbering being based on the 1796 land act. [7] The two surveys of 1801 and 1806-07 became known as the Congress Lands North of the Old Seven Ranges.