Survey Systems
This system divides land into townships, ranges, and sections and is used in most states.
What is the Rectangular Survey System?
This legal description method uses directions and distances.
What is Metes and Bounds?
A township measures this many miles on each side.
What is 6 miles?
A recorded map of a subdivision.
What is a plat?
One acre contains this many square feet.
What is 43,560 square feet?
The Rectangular Survey System is also known by this name.
What is the Government Survey System?
Physical markers such as rivers, roads, or trees used in legal descriptions are called these.
What are monuments?
A township contains this many square miles.
What is 36 square miles?
This survey system relies on recorded subdivision maps.
What is the Lot and Block System?
One section contains this many acres.
What is 640 acres?
This survey system is commonly used in the original 13 colonies and other older states.
What is the Metes and Bounds System?
The starting point of a metes and bounds description.
What is the point of beginning (POB)?
A township is divided into this many sections.
What is 36 sections?
Individual parcels within a subdivision are called these.
What are lots?
One-half of a section contains this many acres.
What is 320 acres?
This survey system identifies lots and blocks within a recorded subdivision.
What is the Lot and Block System?
In metes and bounds, "metes" refers to these.
What are distances and measurements?
A section contains this many acres.
What is 640 acres?
A group of lots bounded by streets is called this.
What is a block?
One-quarter of a section contains this many acres.
What is 160 acres?
This federal agency was responsible for overseeing the original public land surveys.
What is the General Land Office?
A metes and bounds description must always end at this location.
What is the point of beginning (POB)?
The north-south reference line used in the Rectangular Survey System.
What is a principal meridian?
Before lots can be sold in a subdivision, this document is typically recorded.
What is a plat map?
The NE ¼ of the SW ¼ of a section contains this many acres.
What is 40 acres?