Navajo meridian and baseline

The Navajo meridian, established in 1869,[1] is one of the two principal meridians for Arizona, the other being the Gila and Salt River meridian. Its initial point was stated as latitude 35° 45' north, longitude 108° 32' 45" west from Greenwich,[2] but has been revised as 35°44′56″N 108°31′59″W / 35.74889°N 108.53306°W / 35.74889; -108.53306[3] The Navajo meridian and baseline were used to set townships and ranges in a special survey for the original Navajo Reservation,[4][5] and was set at the eastern boundary of that reservation.[4] The Arizona lands surveyed using the Navajo meridian and baseline were ranges six west to ten west and townships one north to fourteen north,[5] and included Canyon de Chelly National Monument.[6]

While the above mentioned Arizona lands still reference the Navajo meridian and baseline,[5] in New Mexico the surveys of lands originally surveyed under it were canceled in 1936,[4] and have since been resurveyed using the New Mexico meridian and baseline.[5] In Arizona, only the portions of the Navajo Reservation that are east of the Hopi Reservation were surveyed using the Navajo meridian and baseline.[5][7]

Notes

  1. ↑ United States Geological Survey and United States Forest Service (May 2003) National Mapping Program Technical Instructions Part 5: Public Land Survey System Standards for USGS and USDA Forest Service Single Edition Quadrangle Maps, p. 5A-3, draft
  2. ↑ Raymond, William Galt (1914). Plane Surveying for Use in the Classroom and Field (via Google Books). New York: American Book Company. p. 458.
  3. ↑ "List of Meridians" from Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States; 1973, prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, Technical Bulletin 6; pub. U.S. Dept of Interior, from Principal Meridian Project
  4. 1 2 3 Hubbard, Bill, Jr. (2009) "Navajo Meridian, 1869" American Boundaries: The nation, the states, the rectangular survey University of Chicago Press, Chicago, p. 338, ISBN 978-0-226-35591-7
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Zajac, Terrence M. and Myler, Charles E. (1996) Arizona Real Estate: Practice and Law Real Estate Education Co., Chicago, Illinois, ISBN 0-7931-0106-9
  6. ↑ "Act Authorizing Establishment of Canyon de Chelly NM" Appendix 6 of the Administrative History of Canyon de Chelly, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior
  7. ↑ Bureau of Land Management, United States Department of the Interior (3 February 2000) Federal Register 65(No.23): p. 5365

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Coordinates: 35°44′56″N 108°31′59″W / 35.74889°N 108.53306°W / 35.74889; -108.53306

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