Survey Terms and Such
Kerr Surveying History
Texas Surveying History
100

The amount of square feet in an acre.

What is 43560 square feet?

100

Kerr Surveying's first office location

What is 505 Church Avenue?



100

The man who standardized the Texas vara

Who is James Kerr?
200

The year US Survey feet was formally decommissioned from regular use.

What is 2023?

(Will also accept "What is at the end of the year of 2022")

200

Kerr Surveying's 2nd office location

What is 10308 Dogwood Trail?

(Will accept Brad's house)

200

The nephew of Stephen F. Austin who was gifted a large sum of land.

Who is William Joel Bryan?

300

4428.4 acres is the established measurement in Texas for this type of original land grant.

What is a league survey?

300

Where Brad Kerr had to work after founding Kerr Surveying in 1986, when he had no surveying jobs.

What is Rustex?

300

The type of boundary determination established through Col. Arthur Stiles' methods in 1923 in the court case Texas v. Oklahoma.

What is the gradient boundary?

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