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The mission of the Land Survey Program is to develop and provide information required for the accurate and economical location of property boundaries in Missouri. What is the Public Land Survey System? Why are these corners important? |
Missouri Resources Magazine--Read about a rewarding career with the department as a Gasconade and Maries counties receive assistance to restore and establish survey corners Play the Name Game with the Missouri State Land Surveyor Recent Web Site Updates
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Counties enter into Survey Monument Restoration Contracts with the Department
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(USPLSS) in Missouri is an extension of the system adopted by the United States Congress in 1785. Between 1816 and 1855, Missouri was surveyed into one mile squares called sections. Thirty-six sections in a block of land measuring six miles on each side is called a township. This created the basis for the transfer of the land from the United States Government to private owners and is the basis for all land transfers and ownership in the state today.
Will you soon travel a distance with family? Are you looking for a way to pass the time and learn about Missouri along the way? If so, you are in luck, thanks, in part to the Missouri Board on Geographic Names and the Department of Natural Resources. Making a game of identifying and citing interesting Missouri place names and geographic features can help pass the time and may even become a family tradition. 