Geog 12: Maps and Mapping

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Geog 12 Maps and Mapping

• Lecture 7 Land Partitioning Systems and Parcels

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Grid systems can describe areas as well as points

• Zip codes
• Police Districts
• Census enumeration districts and tracts
• Land ownership parcels (Cadastre)
• Cities, Counties, Minor Civil Divisions, etc.
• Neighborhood and districts
• National grids

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For example..
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The Po Valley Centuriation
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Early US land partitioning metes and bounds
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Written example

• Mercer County, Kentucky Deed Book 7, p.417
• 13 February 1810. Rice BEADLES of Lincoln Co., Ky
  sells 140 acres and 36 poles of land in Mercer
  County on Doctors Fork to John CRAIN for 200
  pounds.
• Land bounded as follows...
• Beginning at the mouth of a branch at an ash
  stumpthence up the creek S 20 poles to 2
  beachthence east 41 poles to a small walnut in
  Arnett's linethence north 50 east 80 poles to a
  linn hickory dogwood in said linethence north 38
  poles to an ashthence west 296 poles with
  Potts's line till it intersects with Tolly's
  linethence south 30 west 80 poles to a whiteoak
  and sugar thence east 223 poles to beginning....

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More recent example Route 66 in Virginia
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The United States Public Land Survey System
(USPLSS)
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Geographers line Illinois
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Ohio A mess!
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Ohio-West Virginia Border
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California
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Remnants
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Laying out the grid
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Boustrophedonic Section Numbers
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Section Sub-division
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A parcel reference
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Section corner corrections (Frankenmuth, MI)
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California and the USPLS
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T-R and Sections, but
Burbank 1911
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French tradition Rivers and long lots
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Colorado
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More locally
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Santa Barbara Co. Assessors Office Land Parcels
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Other region-based land partitionsLAFCO
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Census Tracts
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The cadastre and real estate zillow.com
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Remember UTM? Also has UPS