Saturday, July 20, 2013

Public Land Survey System (PLSS) Map




The Public Land Survey System was used early in US history to chart and show ownership of land by dividing it into theoretically equal sized (though at the time it was impossible to make measurements so precise) square parcels of land. The map above shows a piece of land divided according to the PLSS. this was used when Americans began settling the West.

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