Land Survey Systems

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• Land Survey Systems
• in the United States

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• French
• ARPENTS aka LONGLOTS
• Measurement unit an arpent, an areal
  measurement of roughly 90 feet wide and 450 feet
  long.
• Found in the St. Lawrence Valley and South
  Louisiana, early French settlements

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• English
• METES AND BOUNDS
• Based on landmarks, compass directions, and
  distances, originally measured with a Gunters
  chain, which was 66 feet long.
• Found in the area of the
• 13 original colonies

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• American,
• Invented by Thomas Jefferson
• TOWNSHIP AND RANGE
• Based on Latitude and Longitude
• Easily replicable and unchanging
• Found in the trans-Mississippi West

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