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• Deed Platter - Platting Deeds in Metes and Bounds

  An interactive form to plat deeds in metes and bounds.

• Early Land Surveys in Southern Ontario

  By John Becker.

• Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations

  Land terms defined from the Bureau of Land Management's Learning the Cadastral Data Content Standard.

• Graphical Display of the Federal Township and Range System

  U.S.

• How to Read and Understand Legal Land Descriptions - Understanding Legal Land Descriptions

• Land Survey Information System

  Clickable map of the range/meridian/townships/sections of the United States. It allows the genealogist to find the land parcel by using the land deed description.

• Land Survey Systems

• Legal Land Descriptions in the USA

  • Legal Land Descriptions in Federal Township and Range System

  • Legal Land Descriptions in Indiscriminate Metes and Bounds

• Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History

  A book by Andro Linklater.

• Metes and Bounds Surveys

• PLSS in Google Earth (PLSGE)

  Metzger + Willard, Inc, a civil engineering firm has provided a free application that runs in Google Earth version 5.0 or later. (PLSGE) This application provides Township and Section lines as an overlay on Google Earth as well as an overlay for the Principal Meridians and Baselines. PLSGE has search capabilities for Townships and Sections.

• Range Maps for Dummies

• Reference - BLM GLO Records - Rectangular Survey System

• Surveying Units and Terms

• U.S. Weights and Measures

  Includes area measures and surveyor's chain measures.