This manual documents current official procedures for PLSS surveys. Originally proposed by Thomas Jefferson, the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) dates back to 1785. Under Congressional mandate, cadastral surveys were undertaken to create parcels suitable for disposal by the Government. The Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands Of The United States, 1973 documents current official procedures for PLSS surveys. The document has been out of print for some time, and is still an essential reference for all current PLSS surveys. The PLSS forms the basis for most land transfers and ownership today.

Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States 1973

Bureau of Land Management

Science & Math

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Second edition. Francois D. Uzes began his surveying career in Califiornia in 1954. As head of the Boundry Determination Unit, he was responsible for inventorying, surveying, mapping and determining the boundaries of four and a half million acres of state-owned land. He was also a collector of old surveying books and maps. Contains appendices and an index, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Minor rubbing and soiling at extremities of dust jacket, with small tears and creases at the head. xviii , 315 pages. quarter paper-covered boards, cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

Chaining the Land

Uzes, Francois D.

This guide includes descriptions and illustrations of numerous early American instruments used in surveying, with values assigned according to various periods of manufacture. Special attachments for mining and solar observations are also treated. In addition, a price guide for over 200 surveying texts, manuals, and manufacturer's catalogs, for the years 1616 to 1925, is included. Supplementing this is a bibliography of all known surveying books published in America up to 1850. 
 Contents: Part One, Instruments: Introduction, Sales, metals, inverted images, restoration, condition, tripods; Transits ; Levels; Burt's Solar Compasses; Magnetic Compasses ;Plane Tables ;Targets; Chains and Tapes; Tripods;Leveling Rods ;Plumb Bobs 
Part Two - Books:Introduction; Manufacturer's Catalogs; Priced Books; Non-Priced Listing of pre-1850 Treatises.

Illustrated Price Guide to Antique Surveying Instruments and Books

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

(1906; reprinted 1980) Underhill; Overview of mineral property surveying in the public lands states in the early 20th century. Lode location surveys, angular claims, mill sites, placers, and more, provides information about mining regulations issued by the GLO (Government Land Office.)A must read for person who were surveyin mineral porperty in the early 2oth century, and a still read classic for anyone today who may be interested in mineral property.

Mineral Land Surveying

Underhill,James

Deed Descriptions I Have Known but Could Have Done Without

Wilson, Donald A.

Noteforms for Surveying Measurements

Barry, B. Austin

Brinker, Russell C.

Surveying Measurements and Their Analysis

Buckner, R. B.

Astronomy & Space Science

A comprehensive guide to all legal and technical aspects of water boundaries. Water Boundaries is a single-source guide to all critical legal and technical water boundary issues. An indispensable resource for surveyors, political geographers, public land managers, attorneys, developers, real estate professionals, and students in these and other related fields, this book provides:  In-depth discussions of the legal issues surrounding all types of water boundaries The full range of modern methods of precise water boundary locationDetailed technical specifications for mean high water line surveys Relevant algorithms and mathematical formulas Illustrative real-world case studies  Water boundaries are perhaps the oldest and most widely used of man's boundaries. Yet, despite this long history of usage, water boundaries are probably the most frequently and bitterly contested boundaries in today's society. Because shorelines and bodies of water are dynamic rather than static, knotty technical and legal disagreements over water boundaries invariably crop up. Recent land use practices have created a growing demand for precisely located and legally defensible water boundaries. As a consequence, the need for a single-source professional reference such as this has never been greater. Water Boundaries is a comprehensive reference devoted exclusively to this highly specialized area. Written for surveyors and engineers, as well as legal and real estate professionals, it provides in-depth discussions of the legal issues surrounding each type of water boundary while describing the full range of modern methods for precisely locating them. This volume covers all types of water boundaries, including division lines between private uplands and public submerged lands in both tidal and nontidal waters, lateral division lines between adjacent riparian ownerships, boundaries between state and federal waters, and offshore international boundaries. For technical specialists, the author provides detailed specifications for mean high water line surveys, as well as all relevant mathematics, including formulas for calculating tidal data and predicting optimum placement of tide gauges, analytical techniques for estimating high water in nontidal bodies of water, and the use of coordinate geometry in constructing equidistant and median lines. Technical and nontechnical readers alike will appreciate the many illustrative real-world case studies scattered throughout the book. Water Boundaries is an indispensable resource for surveyors, public land managers, attorneys, developers, and real estate professionals, and for all those involved in land planning, offshore mineral extraction, and other related fields.

Water Boundaries

Cole, George M.

Tax Law

Legal Principle of Boundary Location for Arkansas

Elgin, Richard

A remarkable chapter in American history previously ignored by historians is the birth and growth and demise of a movement of mathematical practitioners, who pursued the practical sciences from the establishment of the first British plantations in North America through the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Until now the history of science in America has been told in terms of the accomplishments of a handful of great achievers in the abstract sciences and of the naturalists who recorded the flora and fauna of the New World. Unacknowledged and unstudied have been the achievements of that inconspicuous yet impressive band of self-taught men who charted the wilderness, navigated the unknown waterways, surveyed the new communities and the new territories, made the scientific instruments with which these accomplishments could be achieved, and instructed others in these practical sciences. A single volume cannot encompass the countless individual efforts of these modest men of science and in fact little purpose would be served by a detailed account, for rarely did the individual deserve even a footnote in history. Yet the combined endeavors played a significant role in uniting individual settlements and forging the British colonies into an American nation. It is with this total effort that Thinkers and Tinkers is concerned. 
Contents: Part I, Settlement: In Their Beginnings; Surging Seas; Where Wolves Now Howl; Dark Hemisphere. Part II, Development: Men of Ingenuity; Witty Geometers; To Rouse the Genius; New Paths in Science; Such Pleasant Inventions: A Work Adorned. Part III, Revolution: Of Liberty and Life; Wars Weapons. Part IV, Nationhood: One Vast Republic; The True Geography; Promotion of Science; From His Known Shore; Book of Nature; Dignity of Independence. 102 illustrations; 825 reference notes; 28 page glossary of terms; bibliography, index.

Thinkers and Tinkers: Early Men of Science

Bedini, Silvio A.

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