Public Land Survey System (PLSS)

ID: 3380 | This file appears in: The Public Land Survey System and Early American Land Colonization

The Public Land Survey System was developed with the grid pattern of townships and sections. This framework organized land in the state into measurable and locatable areas. This survey method divided Indiana into a grid of six-mile-square townships, further subdivided into 36 one-mile-square sections, establishing property boundaries and descriptions still used today. | Source: Wilkerson, Chandler. "Democracy for Some: Defining the Indiana Landscape through the Rectangular Survey System." Indiana Historical Bureau Blog, August 11, 2014. https://blog.history.in.gov/democracy-for-some-defining-the-indiana-landscape-through-the-rectangular-survey-system/.

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Wilkerson, Chandler. "Democracy for Some: Defining the Indiana Landscape through the Rectangular Survey System." Indiana Historical Bureau Blog, August 11, 2014. https://blog.history.in.gov/democracy-for-some-defining-the-indiana-landscape-through-the-rectangular-survey-system/.

"Public Land Survey System (PLSS)" appears in: The Public Land Survey System and Early American Land Colonization