Post on 05-Jan-2016
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Public Land Surveying System
PLSS
Metes and Bounds
• A way of dividing up land based on physical features in the environment, such as trees, streams, boulders, etc.
• Can cause disputes between neighbors and weirdly shaped land boundaries
PLSS
• Dividing up land based on a organized system
• A base line and a meridian line (remember from western hemisphere geography) is how the state is sectioned off laid out in the Northwest Ordiance
Land Ownership/House Deeds
• "Lying and being in Township 4 North; Range 7 West; and being the northwest quadrant of the southwest quadrant of said section,“
• Exact descriptions of ownership of land