survey plat
1Plat — thumb|A contemporary plat map showing the location of a lot for sale.A plat consists of a map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. U.S. General Land Office surveyors drew township plats to show the distance and bearing… …
2Plat of Zion — The plat of Zion is a plat (city plan) that defined a grid system of streets that was used in the construction of hundreds of Mormon and Western United States communities. Designed around Latter Day Saint principles of agrarianism and community,… …
3survey — I verb To survey land is to ascertain corners, boundaries, and divisions, with distances and directions, and not necessarily to compute areas included within defined boundaries. To appraise as to value or condition II survey, noun The process by… …
4plat map — A plat which gives legal descriptions of pieces of property by lot, street, and block numbers. A plat map is generally drawn after the property has been described by some other means, such as a Government Survey System. Once a plat map is set,… …
5survey — The determination of the boundary or boundaries of land. Bunger v Grimm, 142 Ga 448, 83 SE 200. The map, plat, or other memorandum of the determination of a land boundary by a surveyor. 12 Am J2d Bound § 99. An architect s examination of premises …
6Lot and Block survey system — The Lot and Block Survey System is a method used in the United States and Canada to locate and identify land, particularly for lots in densely populated metropolitan areas, suburban areas and exurbs. It is sometimes referred to as the Recorded… …
7Public Land Survey System — Seal of the BLM The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels, particularly for titles and deeds of rural, wild or undeveloped land. Its basic units of area are the township and… …
8Ohio and Erie Canal — Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark District …
9Miami and Erie Canal — Barge General Harrison of Piqua on the canal in the Piqua, Ohio, Historical Area, in July 2006. Note the captain steering the canal boat and the towing donkey on the towpath on the far side. The canal is wide enough to permit two barges to pass.… …
10Indian old field — Indian Old Field, or simply Old Field, was a term used in Colonial American times and up to the early 19th Century United States, by white explorers, surveyors, cartographers and settlers, in reference to land formerly cleared and utilized by… …
