Section Corners

The county surveyor must keep and maintain a corner record book showing original government section corners set for each of the congressional sections.

Section corners. The legal description of a tract of land under the plss includes the name of the state name of the county township number range number section. Township 19 north range 6 east. A supplement to the manual of surveying instructions containing a discussion of practices followed by the bureau of land management prepared especially for the information and guidance of county and local surveyor.

Township 18 north range 7 east. Township 19 north range 7 east. Township 17 north range 8 east.

Section corner stones were set to mark each square mile of the state. An exception to this is made on the last half mile of those lines closing on township boundaries. Township 17 north range 7 east.

At points midway between the section and quarter section corners and between the quarter section corners and the center of the section. Section corners in 1806 land surveyors working for the u s. Prepared in the division of cadastral survey.

Land surveying under the public land survey system plss a section is an area nominally one square mile 2 6 square kilometers containing 640 acres 260 hectares with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid. Section or monument id. Congress marked out the one square mile sections comprising what would become vanderburgh county indiana.

Nw 1 4 nnw 1 16 n 1 4 nne 1 16 ne 1 4 wnw 1 16 cnw 1 16 cn 1 16 cne 1 16 ene 1 16 w 1 4 cw 1 16 c 1 4 ce 1 16 e 1 4 wsw 1 16 csw 1 16 cs 1 16 cse 1 16 ese 1 16 sw 1 4 ssw 1 16. United states government printing office. Public lands survey system.