Match the survey systems

AP Human Geography

English Method

English Metes and Bounds- uses a reference point and constructs a plot from these natural and man made references

French Method French Long Lot-The long-lot

system of land survey (below) was cheap and easy, and it gave each farm equal amounts of each kind of soil on the floodplain, the terraces, and the interfluves. It gave access to a transportation artery (river or road) for a maximum number of farms. Each family could live on its own farm but still be close to neighbors. Each family developed its farm progressively, but clearing the forests near the farmstead first and leaving the more remote parts until later.

American Method

Public Land Survey-The PLSS typically divides land into 6-mile-square townships, which is the level of information included in the National Atlas. Townships are subdivided into 36 one-mile- square sections. Sections can be further subdivided into quarter sections, quarter-quarter sections, or irregular government lots.

French Long Lot, English Metes and Bounds or Public Land

Survey?

French Long Lot, English Metes and Bounds or Public Land

Survey?

French Long Lot, English Metes and Bounds or Public Land

Survey?

French Long Lot, English Metes and Bounds or Public Land

Survey?Hastings Nebraska

French Long Lot, English Metes and Bounds or Public Land

Survey?New Road Louisiana

French Long Lot, English Metes and Bounds or Public Land

Survey?Dorchester Mass.Near Boston