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  2. Plat - Wikipedia

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    A plat of subdivision or plan of subdivision appears when a landowner or municipality divides land into smaller parcels. If a landowner owns an acre of land, for instance, and wants to divide it into three pieces, a surveyor would have to take precise measurements of the land and submit the survey to the governing body, which would then have to ...

  3. Lot and block survey system - Wikipedia

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    For a legal description in the Lot and Block system a description must identify: the individual lot, the block in which the lot is located, if applicable, a reference to a platted subdivision or a phase thereof, a reference to find the cited plat map (e.g., a page and/or volume number), and

  4. Subdivision (land) - Wikipedia

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    A subdivision plat approved by a local planning commission, once recorded in a registry of deeds, is generally deemed to have created the parcels of land identified on the plat itself. The problem of testamentary division of property was identified by the SCPEA in the footnote to the definition of subdivision, but not fully clarified by it.

  5. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    All subsequent subdivision, sale, etc. must proceed from the original survey. In the United States, most original surveys were done under contract with the General Land Office. Principal meridian (PM): A true meridian running through an initial point, which together with the baseline form the highest level framework for all rectangular surveys ...

  6. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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    The legal description of a tract of land under the PLSS includes the name of the state, name of the county, township number, range number, section number, and portion of a section. Sections are customarily surveyed into smaller squares by repeated halving and quartering. A quarter section is 160 acres (65 ha) and a "quarter-quarter section" is ...

  7. Townsite - Wikipedia

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    A townsite is a legal subdivision of land for the development of a town or community.In the historical development of the United States, Canada, and other former British colonial nations, the filing of a townsite plat (United States) or plan (Canada) was often the first legal act in the establishment of a new town or community.

  8. Cadastral surveying - Wikipedia

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    Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries. It involves the physical delineation of property boundaries and determination of dimensions, areas and certain rights associated with properties.

  9. Real property - Wikipedia

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    For a legal description in the lot and block system a description must identify: the individual lot, the block in which the lot is located, if applicable, a reference to a platted subdivision or a phase thereof, a reference to find the cited plat map (i.e., a page and/or volume number), and