Unit 5 Land Description Flashcards
What is a legal description?
Detailed way of describing a parcel of land for documentation, and accepted by a court of law.
What is a survey?
The process by which boundaries are measured, and the dimensions are calculated to determine the exact piece of land.
What are the 3 types of describing real estate?
1-Metes and Bounds
2-Rectangular survey
3-Lot and block
What is the metes and bounds method?
Metes means to measure distances
Starting from a Point of beginning (POB),
Following the compass directions or angles (Bounds)
and point of ending to describe the property.
What are monuments?
Fixed objects used to identify the POB. and corners wher the boundary line changes direction.
What is the lot and block system?
Aka recorded plat. divides subdivision into block and lot (individual parcel) numbers All data referenced in a plat map.
How are lots described in a subdivision?
1-Lot and block number
2-Name or number of the subdivision plat
3-Name of the county and state
What is the rectangular survey system?
Sometimes called the government survey. Based on principal meridian lines that run north and south, and base lines that run east and west. They are referenced by the degrees of longitude and latitude.
What are ranges?
The land on either side of the principal meridian divided into six mile wide strips, that run and south.
What are township lines?
Lines running and east and west parallel to baselines and six miles apart. These township lines create strips of land called tiers.
What are township squares?
When the horizontal township lines and vertical range lines intersect.
How many principal meridians are there?
37
What are sections?
The further subdivision of township squares into 1 square mile, 640 acres.
How many sections are in a township?
36
How many square feet are in an acre?
43,560
Where is section 1?
Always in the upper northeast corner.
Where is section 36?
Always in the lower southeast corner.
How are sections numbered?
Right to left, then left to right, then right to left…
How do you calculate the acreage in a survey?
1-Multiple the denominators of all the numbers.
2-Take 640/The answer of 1
How do you read survey identifiers?
From right to left.
Which section is dedicated for schools?
16
What is a datum?
a point line or surface from which elevations are measured or indicated.
What are benchmarks?
Permanent reference points that have been established through out the US.
How large is a square mile?
640 acres
How is survey preparation done?
Includes both Legal description and survey sketch
Must be included by reference or transcribed exactly was written
