Talk:Public Land Survey System

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I had thought of naming this article the United States Public... , but a web search for LPSS and survey only turns up things in the U.S. Besides the title was long enouh already.

For details of the prime range line by state, just do a web search on LPSS and the state name. - Lou I 03:53 30 May 2003 (UTC)

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  The title of this article is misleading, as it deals exclusively with a United States land survey system, a definition not expressed in the article's title. (Alexander Ganse)

[edit] Ettymology issues

"Meet" in the context of "meets and bounds," is not what "meets the eye;" it is a modern variant on "mete" which has to do with measurement. Meets and bounds (or metes and bounds) is indeed a survey system, but it is a rigorous recording of measurements betweem natuaral markers (the bounds).

Shame on you for perpetrating fraudulent (albaeit inventive) misapprehensions.

[edit] List of Meridians and Baselines

I thought there would be an article Third Principal Meridian, but there wasn't. Since there are a finite number of meridians and baselines, it would be possible to make a list of them and have each one have an article.--Bhuck 15:34, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I suppose there could. There's an article for the Michigan Meridian and a couple of others are in Category:Lines of longitude. older ≠ wiser 20:57, 14 December 2006 (UTC)