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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. Stateline - Wikipedia

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    Stateline, California, near Lake Tahoe; Stateline, Idaho, A city in Kootenai County; State Line, St. Joseph County, Indiana; State Line, Vigo County, Indiana; Guthrie ...

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

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    Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.

  5. List of tripoints of U.S. states - Wikipedia

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    Connecticut–Rhode Island–Massachusetts tripoint marker. New Jersey–New York–Pennsylvania tripoint marker. Indiana–Michigan–Ohio tripoint marker. Colorado–Kansas–Oklahoma tripoint marker (8 Mile Corner) Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma tripoint marker. State 1.

  6. United States Numbered Highway System - Wikipedia

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    The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these highways were coordinated among the states, they are sometimes called Federal Highways, but the roadways ...

  7. Border - Wikipedia

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    Border. Borders are generally defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities.

  8. Commerce Clause - Wikipedia

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    The Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). The clause states that the United States Congress shall have power "to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes". Courts and commentators have tended to discuss each ...

  9. List of states and territories of the United States - Wikipedia

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    A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from the map. The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states ...