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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 ...
This is a map highlighting Illinois counties without township government (Precincts not townships). Date: 24 February 2007: Source: Own work: Author: Own work Derived from David Benbennick's map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. SVG development
The Illinois side includes Henry County, Mercer County, and Rock Island County. [4] In extreme northwestern Illinois the Driftless Zone, a region of unglaciated and therefore higher and more rugged topography, occupies a small part of the state. Charles Mound, located in this region, is the state's highest elevation above sea level.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management map showing the principal meridians of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The fourth principal meridian, set in 1815, [1] is the principal meridian for land surveys in northwestern Illinois and west-central Illinois, [2] and its 1831 [3] extension is the principal meridian for land surveys in Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota.
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.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 03:10, 28 February 2007: 3,453 × 6,157 (22 KB): Dual Freq: This is a map showing the shape of Illinois, shaded in blue.
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TopoQuest is a free web mapping service built on open source software that provides internet-based topographic map for most of the United States.. The site is one of three internet services used by Wikipedia for providing topographic maps.