PLSS Yesterday
These three Presidents on Mount Rushmore had a background in land surveying.
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln?
This mapping is tied directly to accurate PLSS information.
What is GIS?
This is the very foundation of property descriptions in the State.
What is the PLSS?
Wisconsin State Statutes require these to mark the corners and lines of surveys.
What are monuments?
This famous magician was born in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Who is Harry Houdini?
This was used to measure distance during the Original Government Survey.
What is the Gunter's chain?
This is the number of corners every survey performed in the Wisconsin is required to be tied to.
What is 2?
___________ System standardization was a technical challenge for the Statewide PLSS Project.
What is coordinate?
The cumulative effect of these in coordinate measurements will affect the relative positions of survey control stations.
What are errors?
In 1982, the Brewers made it to the World Series but lost to this team.
What is the St. Louis Cardinals?
This is the meridian line that runs north and south through the State of Wisconsin.
What is the 4th Principal Meridian?
The County Surveyor can be the _______________ between neighbors, surveyors, and landowners.
What is mediator?
Most of the information for the Statewide PLSS Project comes from these entities.
What are Counties?
This is typically the tool used to acquire coordinates on a PLSS monument.
What is a GPS?
This Wisconsin City is known as the "Bratwurst Capital of the World".
What is Sheboygan?
This was the Section in every township that was reserved for the maintenance of public schools.
What is Section 16?
This is the primary duty of a County Surveyor.
What is maintain the Public Land Survey System?
With multiple points near each corner location, criteria were developed to select this type of corner.
What is Display?
These people are accustomed to relating their ownership to monuments.
What are landowners?
This is the State Soil of Wisconsin.
What is Antigo Silt Loam?
These were typically used to reference the original corner location.
What are bearing trees or witness trees?
This is the number of elected County Surveyors in Wisconsin.
What is 1?
This is the highest level of horizontal accuracy for coordinates.
What is survey grade accuracy?
Conversions of these require the occupation of the monumented survey control stations to determine new coordinates.
What are datums?
The town of Pepin, Wisconsin is home to a museum honoring this author of the Little House books, most famously "Little House on the Prairie"?
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?