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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. Plat - Wikipedia

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   Plat. A plat map that shows the location of a lot for sale. In the United States, a plat (/ plæt / [1] or / plɑːt /) [2] (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bearing between ...

4. Lot and block survey system - Wikipedia

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   a description of the map's place of official recording (e.g., recorded in the files of the County Engineer). The legal description of a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) property under the Lot and Block system may be something like; Lot 5 of Block 2 of the South Subdivision plat as recorded in Map Book 21, Page 33 at the Recorder of Deeds.

5. Cadastre - Wikipedia

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   A modern cadastral map for Eastern England. A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property 's metes-and-bounds of a country. [1][2] Often it is represented graphically in a cadastral map. In most countries, legal systems have developed around the original administrative systems and use the cadastre to ...

6. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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   The primary grid pattern is of quarter sections (1⁄2 mi × 1⁄2 mi (800 m × 800 m)). In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), containing 640 acres (260 hectares), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid. [1]

7. Boundary (real estate) - Wikipedia

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   Boundary (real estate) A property marker outside the United Nations building in New York City. A unit of real estate or immovable property is limited by a legal boundary (sometimes also referred to as a property line, lot line or bounds). The boundary (in Latin: limes) may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a ...