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Land surveying in Kentucky is regulated by the Commonwealth in KRS 322. [8] The Standards of Practice are defined in 201 KAR 18:150. [9] Compliance is maintained by the Kentucky Board of Engineers and Land Surveyors, [10] which was established by an Act of the Kentucky General Assembly in 1938.
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 ...
Commissioners of the United States General Land Office (36 P) N. Surveyors General of the Northwest Territory (6 P) Pages in category "American surveyors"
Many longhunters were employed by land surveyors seeking to claim new lands ceded to the British by the French in the Ohio River Valley following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War. Some later helped guide settlers to what became Middle Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky.
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Kentucky that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are listings in all of Kentucky's 120 counties . The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by ...
must have a land area of at least 400 square ... Green Clay (1757–1828), Revolutionary War general and western surveyor 19,648: 471 sq mi (1,220 ... Kentucky: A ...
Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 hectares) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4.9 billion cubic meters) of flood storage are the most of any lake in the TVA system. [32] Kentucky's 90,000 miles (140,000 km) of streams provides one of the most expansive and complex stream systems in the nation.
They are used in geodetic and land surveying. A benchmark is a type of survey marker that indicates elevation (vertical position). Horizontal position markers used for triangulation are also known as triangulation stations. Benchmarking is the hobby of "hunting" for these marks.