Final Exam – Understanding Legal Descriptions

A datum is used in measuring vertical property rights.

All Principal Meridians use the same base line.

Benchmarks are seldom used in modern surveys for determining a legal description.

Correction lines are located every 4 Townships north and south of a base line to correct for curvature of the earth.

Every sixth township line both north and south of each base line is a correction line.

Fractional sections are always on the east and south of a township.

How many acres are in a square mile?

How many acres are in the following description? The SW1/4 of the SE 1/4 of the SW ¼ of Sec 3, Twp. 5 North of 3rd PM?

How many square miles are there in a Township?

Iron pins or concrete posts are used more today as monuments.

Irregular Lots is a name used by surveyors for areas smaller than quarter sections.

Metes and Bounds descriptions uses a Point of Beginning and then measurements and angles around the parcel back to the point of beginning.

Monuments are “fixed” objects that are used to mark a point of beginning; objects such as a tree or a rock, a road, a stream, or even a stone fence.

Principal Meridians run north and south.

Range lines run north and south.

Section 36 ends in the southwest corner of the township.

The area below and above the surface of the land has to be described in the same manner as the surface.

The Beginning Point of the U. S. Public Land Survey is located at a point on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border between East Liverpool, Ohio and the Pittsburgh- metropolitan area, on private property.

The legal description of a townhome typically follows a Lots and Blocks format.

There are 39 principal meridians across the United States

Township tiers are divided by lines running east and west six miles apart.

Vertical property rights give the owner the rights to the minerals beneath the surface.

What additional section did western states designate as a school section?

What is the name of the meridian used in rectangular surveys for properties in Iowa.

What section in a township is known as the school section?

Which section is directly south of Section 1

A Lots and Blocks legal description is a division of either a Rectangular Survey description or a Metes and Bounds survey.

Owners of a cooperative own a unit with a legal description assigned to it based on Lots and Blocks.

A Lot and Block description must have the size of the lot in the description to be totally accurate.

A township lying between 12 and 18 miles south of the base line would be identified with what township number?