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  2. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    This 1988 BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the Public Land Survey System.. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Plat - Wikipedia

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    A plat map that shows the location of a lot for sale. In the United States, a plat (/ p l æ t / [1] or / p l ɑː t /) [2] (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

  5. Cadastre - Wikipedia

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    Cadastral map from 1827 in Austria (Franziszeischer Kataster ) A modern cadastral map for Eastern England. A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country. [1] [2] Often it is represented graphically in a cadastral map.

  6. Equal-area projection - Wikipedia

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    In cartography, an equivalent, authalic, or equal-area projection is a map projection that preserves relative area measure between any and all map regions. Equivalent projections are widely used for thematic maps showing scenario distribution such as population, farmland distribution, forested areas, and so forth, because an equal-area map does ...

  7. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    The United States Supreme Court has upheld the broad powers of the federal government to deal with federal lands, for example having unanimously held in Kleppe v. New Mexico [7] that "the complete power that Congress has over federal lands under this clause necessarily includes the power to regulate and protect wildlife living there, state law notwithstanding."

  8. Quotient space (topology) - Wikipedia

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    A map : is a quotient map (sometimes called an identification map [1]) if it is surjective and is equipped with the final topology induced by . The latter condition admits two more-elementary formulations: a subset V ⊆ Y {\displaystyle V\subseteq Y} is open (closed) if and only if f − 1 ( V ) {\displaystyle f^{-1}(V)} is open (resp. closed).

  9. Community property in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Community property issues often arise in divorce proceedings and disputes after the death of one spouse. These disputes can often be avoided by proper estate planning during the spouses' joint lifetime. This may or may not involve probate proceedings. Property acquired before marriage is separate and belongs to the spouse who acquired it.