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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. 20th meridian west - Wikipedia

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    The meridian 20° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 20th meridian west forms a great circle with the 160th meridian east. In Antarctica, the meridian defines the border between the ...

  4. 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]

  5. 160th meridian west - Wikipedia

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    The meridian 160° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 160th meridian west forms a great circle with the 20th meridian east. It is the western boundary of continuous Class E airspace between ...

  6. List of principal and guide meridians and base lines of the ...

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    12 miles east of Willamette Meridian, much of which is in Salish Sea at this latitude. [16] Followed by Guide Road / Old Guide Road / Washington State Route 539 in Whatcom County, Meridian Street in Bellingham, Washington. Willow Springs guide meridian: Utah [1] Yantic guide meridian: Montana [1] Yellowstone guide meridian: Montana [1]

  7. 160th meridian east - Wikipedia

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    160th meridian east. The meridian 160° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 160th meridian east forms a great circle with the 20th meridian west. In Antarctica, the meridian defines the border between ...

  8. Dominion Land Survey - Wikipedia

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    The shaded township is Township 17, Range 8 west of the Third Meridian. Starting at each intersection of a meridian and a baseline and working west (also working east of the First Meridian and the Coast Meridian [9]), nearly square townships were surveyed, whose north–south and eastwest sides are about 6 miles (9.7 km) in length. There are ...

  9. Survey township - Wikipedia

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    A survey township, sometimes called a Congressional township or just township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System and by Canada's Dominion Land Survey is a nominally-square area of land that is nominally six survey miles (about 9.66 km) on a side. Each 36-square-mile (about 93.2 km 2) township is divided into 36 sections of ...