Public Lands Survey is regarded as a cadastral survey that sets boundaries for land ownership. For example, if someone purchased the northeast corner of section 22 (160 acres) of a township, the property would be known as the northeast quarter of section 22, township 1 north, range 1 east. Every piece of land is defined according to the portion of the section it covers. Usually, 10-acre portions are the smallest. A section is divided into quarters and named as the northeast quarter, northwest quarter, southeast quarter, and a southwest quarter.Įach quarter of a section is equal to 160 acres, and can further be divided into quarters that are equivalent to 40 acres, and divided up to even smaller units of 2.5 acres. Since a one-mile square does not identify a location very well, the 640 acres section is then further divided into fractional parts or subdivisions to suit the convenience of the owners of the land. Also, the meets and bounds system is used to describe land by listing the compass directions and distances of the boundaries. It is the land’s boundary lines that also have terminal points and angles. Just imagine you are to layout an area of land based on the geography, the meets, and bound system will show you the visible marks of the land. Prior to the land ordinance of 1785 and the Rectangular Survey System, the state lands’ state which would be the 13 colonies, surveyed their land with meets and bound system. But the final plan included subdivision of the lands into townships, then into sections and further into aliquot parts. Many plans have been made on how to subdivide the public domain lands. This system is also needed to divide all of the lands in the public domain which is possessed by the US federal government to benefit the American citizens. It is considered as one of the most significant subdividing of the United States’ mainland.
The Rectangular Survey System is a method of surveying designed to divide the real property into specified plots.
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