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  2. Seven Ranges - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Ranges Terminus. The Seven Ranges (also known as the Old Seven Ranges) was a land tract in eastern Ohio that was the first tract to be surveyed in what became the Public Land Survey System. The tract is 42 miles (68 km) across the northern edge, 91 miles (146 km) on the western edge, with the south and east sides along the Ohio River.

  3. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...

  4. Congress Lands North of Old Seven Ranges - Wikipedia

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    Congress Lands in this ceded area were surveyed 1806-07. This survey had six mile square townships and continued the range, township, and section numbering system of the Ohio River Survey, section numbering being based on the 1796 land act. The two surveys of 1801 and 1806-07 became known as the Congress Lands North of the Old Seven Ranges.

  5. Congress Lands - Wikipedia

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    Congress Lands. Coordinates: 40°21′29″N 80°36′51″W. Congress Lands in Ohio. The Congress Lands was a group of land tracts in Ohio that made land available for sale to members of the general public through land offices in various cities, and through the United States General Land Office. It consisted of three groups of surveys: [1]

  6. Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey - Wikipedia

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    June 23, 1965 [2] The Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey is the point from which the United States in 1786 began the formal survey of the lands known then as the Northwest Territory, now making up all or part of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The survey is claimed to be the first major cadastral survey ...

  7. Virginia Military District - Wikipedia

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    Virginia Military District. Coordinates: 39°30′N 83°30′W. Map of Ohio showing the Virginia Military District in green. The Virginia Military District was an approximately 4.2 million acre (17,000 km 2) area of land in what is now the state of Ohio that was reserved by Virginia to use as payment in lieu of cash for its veterans of the ...

  8. Israel Ludlow - Wikipedia

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    Israel Ludlow was born near Morristown, New Jersey in 1765. [1] In 1786, each of the thirteen states was to appoint a man to help survey the Seven Ranges in the easternmost portion of the Northwest Territory under the Land Ordinance of 1785. Ludlow was appointed to fill the vacant South Carolina surveyorship. [2]

  9. North and East of First Principal Meridian - Wikipedia

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    In 1812, Congress authorized the Surveyor General to survey the northern and western border of Ohio “as soon as the consent of the Indians can be obtained.“ [1] In 1817, the northern portion of the Ohio- Indiana border was surveyed and became known as the First Principal Meridian for lands surveyed in the northwest part of Ohio.

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