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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Saline County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Congressional district. 12th. Website. www.salinecounty.illinois.gov. Saline County is a county in Southern Illinois. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 23,768. [1] The largest city and county seat is Harrisburg. [2] This area of Southern Illinois is known locally as "Little Egypt". Three major towns in Saline County are connected by U ...

  5. Harrisburg, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.thecityofharrisburgil.com. Harrisburg (/ ˈhærɪsbɜːrɡ, ˈhɛərz -/) is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Illinois, United States. [2] It is located about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Evansville, Indiana, and 111 mi (179 km) southeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Its 2020 population was 8,219, and the ...

  6. Plat - Wikipedia

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    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 section ...

  7. National Register of Historic Places listings in Illinois

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    Illinois State Capitol, Sangamon County. Dennis Otte Round Barn, Stephenson County. Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, Lee County. Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria County. General Dean Suspension Bridge, Clinton County. This is a list of properties and districts in Illinois that are on the National Register of Historic Places. There are over 1,900 in total.

  8. James Thompson (surveyor) - Wikipedia

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    James Thompson (1789 – October 6, 1872) was an American surveyor who created the first plat of Chicago. Born in South Carolina, Thompson moved to Kaskaskia in southern Illinois as a young man and lived in the area for the rest of his life, working primarily as a surveyor. He was hired to plat settlements at the ends of the proposed Illinois ...

  9. List of counties in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    There are 102 counties in Illinois. The most populous of these is Cook County, the second-most populous county in the United States and the home of Chicago, while the least populous is Hardin County. The largest by land area is McLean County, while the smallest is Putnam County. Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL.