Land description fundamentals

Question 1

Article of the Arizona constitution that creates state trust lands for the benefit of schools and other entities

Answer 1

Article 10

Question 2

A type of legal description that describes a site by boundary lines, terminal points, and angles. The description must begin and end at the point of beginning (POB)

Answer 2

Metes and bounds

Question 3

A tract of surveyed land showing locations and individual boundaries in a subdivision, town, or section

Answer 3

Plat map

Question 4

A method of legal description for subdivisions, identifying a parcel of land by reference to lot and block numbers within a subdivision, as specified on a subdivision map that is recorded in the county or the property is located

Answer 4

Recorded plat (lot and block)

Question 5

Federal government system that divides land into sections, townships, and ranges using baselines and principal meridians

Answer 5

Rectangular survey system – also called government survey system or public land survey system (PLSS)

Question 6

Lands Transferred from the federal government to the state of Arizona under article 10 of the Arizona constitution to be sold or lease for the benefit of schools and other entities

Answer 6

State trust land