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Statue of Jefferson surveying a site for the University of Virginia. Prior to independence, Peter Jefferson, along with his son Thomas Jefferson, were land surveyors for the crown. At this time, surveyors used a system known as the metes and bounds system, which used "monuments"; identifiable objects such as rocks, trees, etc., as property ...
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.
John C. Sullivan (December 9, 1788 - July 27, 1830) was a surveyor who established the Indian Boundary Line and the Sullivan Line which were to form the boundary between Native Americans and white settlers in Indian Territory from Iowa to Texas.
The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (abbreviated AHCB) is a historical atlas and historical geographic information system chronicling the history of counties and county equivalents in the United States. It was compiled by the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library and edited by John Hamilton ...
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 average population of Missouri's counties is 53,880; St. Louis County is the most populous (987,059), and Worth County is the least (1,907). The average land area is 599 sq mi (1,550 km 2). The largest county is Texas County (1,179 sq mi, 3,054 km 2) and the smallest is St. Louis city (61.9 sq mi, 160 km 2). [5] [6]
Portrait of George Hume c.1735. George Hume (May 30, 1697 – August 16, 1760) was a Scottish-born American surveyor, colonial official, and key figure for his contributions to land surveying in the colony, particularly in the region that would become Culpeper County, Virginia.
Following two intermediate owners, the land was sold for $400 to Judge Lucius Salisbury in 1856. He had surveyors lay out the town plat in 1857, and the town was founded on April 1, 1867. Salisbury has had a post office since 1863, when Judge Salisbury opened it in his home. He also ran the stagecoach stop from his business, known as "Stop-A ...