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I had thought of naming this article the United States Public... , but a web search for LPSS and survey only turns up things in the U.S. Besides the title was long enouh already.
For details of the prime range line by state, just do a web search on LPSS and the state name. - Lou I 03:53 30 May 2003 (UTC)
The title of this article is misleading, as it deals exclusively with a United States land survey system, a definition not expressed in the article's title. (Alexander Ganse)
"Meet" in the context of "meets and bounds," is not what "meets the eye;" it is a modern variant on "mete" which has to do with measurement. Meets and bounds (or metes and bounds) is indeed a survey system, but it is a rigorous recording of measurements betweem natuaral markers (the bounds).
Shame on you for perpetrating fraudulent (albaeit inventive) misapprehensions.
I thought there would be an article Third Principal Meridian, but there wasn't. Since there are a finite number of meridians and baselines, it would be possible to make a list of them and have each one have an article.-- Bhuck 15:34, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
On the articles for each meridian, I think it would be helpful to list the adjacent meridians. -- Una Smith ( talk) 04:58, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the listing of Non-PLSS Regions: Southeastern Michigan (near Lake Erie) still retains the old French long-lot system, in lieu of sections -- add this area to the list? 156.98.210.245 ( talk) 18:56, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Under non-PLSS areas it says: "Louisiana recognizes early French and Spanish descriptions called arpents, particularly in the southern part of the state, as well as PLSS descriptions." I believe that this really applies to all of the Louisiana Territory, although I can't find that written down anywhere. I know it applies in Missouri. Here is one example (possibly the oldest) /info/en/?search=Old_Mines,_Missouri#Land_concessions_and_titles , but if you look at any of the old style 7.5 minute topographical maps in the areas around St. Louis you can see them as the irregularly shaped numbered Surveys surrounded by the PLSS square sections. -- 2600:6C40:4300:4C8:21C:C0FF:FE29:32A0 ( talk) 04:52, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
People of all ages have desired short roads. They are costly. The first cut at a road is a straight line on a map between two places, until contours and geographic features normally force changes. Blaming them on the grid system is, a best, inaccurate. It would have to be a very good WP:RELY reference indeed, to be believable on that point. Having said that, it's okay to blame straight roads on accidents. But not here. Road design maybe. Student7 ( talk) 21:49, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Why does the expression "Back forty" direct here? If there's a reason, can it made a little more explicit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.78.10.26 ( talk) 17:57, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
was edited, with no edit summary :( to:
According to Perch (unit)#Area, a square perch = 16.5 ft × 16.5 ft = 272.25 sq ft. So, 4 square perch = 1089 sq ft = 1⁄40 acre. If that is "one work day", an acre is 40 work days, making the original statement correct. Never having farmed anything, I really have no idea which is right, or even whether it is supposed to be talking about total time to plant, tend, harvest, etc. However, the cited calculation supports the original statement, which is why I'm reverting the edit. A source would be helpful :) —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 02:26, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
The article says:
In Oregon at least, donation land claims are incorporated into the PLSS using section numbers 37 and above, so that for example section 45 of T1S R1W WM designates a donation land claim within T1S R1W that was surveyed before the WM was established. I don't have any RS for this. YBG ( talk) 08:03, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
I was looking for back forty-- and got redirected here, but this is not at all what I was looking for (I'm looking for the Canadian expression). Shouldn't there be a disambig page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.190.183.214 ( talk) 13:14, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
The closing phrase in the opening paragraph "and manages the State Plane Coordinate System" is incorrect. The SPCS is not really managed in any way, but it is a system of measurement defined in many state laws, and the National Geodetic Survey maintains many, many, records of geodetic survey measurements and mathematical conversions to State Plane Coordinates. The Public Land Survey System is/was a method for dividing the land surface into equivalently-sized parcels for subsequent title transfer into individual ownership. The SPCS is a way of representing the convex surface of the earth as individual areas of plane surfaces, configured in relation to U.S. State boundaries, more or less, with a Cartesian coordinate system applied to the plane. IzzyFuzzy ( talk) 04:16, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
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