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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. 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]

  4. 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 ...

  5. 160th meridian west - Wikipedia

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    160th meridian west. 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 ...

  6. 20th meridian east - Wikipedia

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    The meridian 20° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic and Indian oceans, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 20th meridian east forms a great circle with the 160th meridian west. Part of Namibia 's borders with Botswana and South ...

  7. 1st meridian west - Wikipedia

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    The meridianwest of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole . The 1st meridian west forms a great circle with the 179th meridian east . It is the most populous meridian west of Greenwich, being home to ...

  8. Survey township - Wikipedia

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    In the third phase of the survey (British Columbia, Alberta and most of Saskatchewan), townships are nominally 486 chains (6.08 mi; 9.78 km) east-west and 483 chains (6.04 mi; 9.72 km) north-south. [5] The actual area of a given township differs from the nominal because of systematic effects (due to the design of the survey) and surveying errors.

  9. Huntsville meridian - Wikipedia

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    The Huntsville meridian begins on the northern boundary of Alabama, in latitude 34° 59′ 27" north, longitude 86° 34′ 16″ west [1] from Greenwich, extends south to latitude 33° 06′ 20″ north, and governs the surveys in the northern district of Alabama. Within the city of Huntsville, Alabama, Meridian Street coincides with the ...