US Land Survey System
US Land Survey System
Impacts on the American Landscape
Background
States and grant arguments
1.Northwest Territory Ordinance
a.Jefferson and Congress
2.Land Ordinance of 1785
a.Geographer’s Line
3.Ohio Company
4.Land Ordinance of 1796
a.Baselines, Meridians, Townships, Sections
b.Arizona examples
Changes in land amounts
Other land grants
Examples and interpreting the system
Bring in copies of the assigned maps from the map gallery