Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Land Characteristics & Legal Descriptions
- Physical Characteristics of Land
- Recorded subdivision plat map
- Metes & Bounds
- Government Rectangular Survey
- Economic Characteristics of Land
- Scarcity
- Area Preference/situs
- Production
- Assemblance
- Types of Legal Property Description
- Metes & Bounds
Anmerkungen:
- Metes refers to distance, bounds to directions.
Beginning at POB (point of beginning) similar to walk around directions
(corner means change of direction)
Permanent reference markers - benchmarks actual distance takes precedence over the distance stated in the metes & bounds description
- Government Land Survey
Anmerkungen:
- Established by Congress in 1785
Most common in west/midwest
Based on: Principal meridian (PM) north-south longtitude
intersecting base lines (BL)
east-west latitude
Each PM is intersected by a BL
each square in the grid is a township (6 miles long, total area 36 sq. miles)
- Recorded Plats
Anmerkungen:
- A map of a subdivision
Created by a developer or subdivider when a raw land is subdivided into building lots
BLOCK: largest unit within a subdivision
LOTS: each block is subdivided into individual LOTS that houses are built on