Surveys and surveyors of the public domain, 1785-1975 / by Lola Cazier.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Cazier, Lola, author.

Contributor:

United States. Bureau of Land Management, issuing body.

Series:

Legal classics library

HeinOnline legal classics library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Surveys--History.

United States.

Surveying--United States--History.

Surveying.

Surveys.

Genre:

Online resources.

History

Government publications

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations

monochrome.

Manufacture:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 1976.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Cadastral surveys are performed to create, mark, and define, or to retrace the boundaries between abutting land owners, and, more particularly, between land of the Federal Government and private owners or local governments. As referred to here, cadastral surveys were performed only by the General Land Office during its existence and by the Bureau of Land Management. The Bureau of Land Management is the only agency that is currently authorized to determine the boundaries of the public lands of the United States. Proper understanding of the basis for performance of cadastral surveys includes an understanding of the history of the public land surveys. An understanding of that history requires some consideration of the people who performed these surveys and of the people whose land was affected by them. These chapters were written to be used as an aid in training cadastral surveyors in the application of surveying principles. The learner is expected to gain from the factual material on survey laws and their formation, as well as from a study of the people who performed the surveys. Many of the men who had an important role in the history of cadastral surveying are still living, but only those who have retired are included in the present document."--Foreword.

Contents:

1. Ancient Surveys

2. Colonial America

3. The Beginning of the Rectangular Surveys

4. The Ellicotts and Benjamin Banneker

5. The Proving Ground

6. Congressional Authority for Management of the Public Lands

7. The Refinement of the Rectangular Survey System

8. Pioneer Surveyors

9. The Far West

10. In the Vanguard

11. The Direct System

12. About Cadastral Surveys

13. Alaska

14. The Early Years of the Direct System

15. Modernization of the System

16. News, Notes, and Anecdotes

17. The Bureau of Land Management.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Online resource (PURL, HathiTrust, HeinOnline, viewed December 14, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version: Cazier, Lola. Surveys and surveyors of the public domain, 1785-1975.

OCLC:

557976143

Access Restriction:

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