In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), containing 640...

The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling...

States land surveying), an area nominally one square mile Section, an area of one square mile in Dominion Land Survey, Western Canada Section, part of the...

initial surveying was performed by Thomas Hutchins. After he died in 1789, responsibility for surveying was transferred to the Surveyor General. Land was...

(2.6 km2) sections for agricultural and other purposes. It is based on the layout of the Public Land Survey System used in the United States, but has several...

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines...

Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and minor outlying possessions. The United States shares land borders with Canada and Mexico and maritime borders with Russia...

land is normally 2⁄3 of a Tagwerk ("day work") of ploughing with an ox Public Land Survey System Quarter acre Section (United States land surveying)...

sections for agricultural and other purposes Public Land Survey System, a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels Survey...