While debating what became the Land Ordinance of 1785, Thomas Jefferson's committee wanted to divide the public lands in the west into “ hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot ” and “ sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre ”.

Currently, the festivals of moros y cristianos ( Castilian ), moros i cristians ( Catalan ), mouros e cristãos ( Portuguese ) and mouros e cristiáns ( Galician ), these meaning " Moors and Christians ", recreate the fights as colorful parades with elaborate garments and lots of fireworks, especially on the central and southern towns of the Land of Valencia, like Alcoi, Ontinyent or Villena.

Much of the land acquired had been platted into lots in 1912 by the Munger Land Company and sold to investors.

1800 after the Holland Land Company extinguished Indian claims to the land, acquired the title to eight western-most counties of Western New York, surveyed their holdings, established towns, and began selling lots.

The East Hancock neighborhood was formerly characterised by a number of deep ravines originally covered with wooden sidewalks that were filled in by the Dakota Heights Land Company ; the neighbourhood was then " subdivided into residential lots ".

Land developers sold 20, 000 lots in a few months in 1912.

Soon after the Cherokee " Trail of Tears ", the white people who had drawn or purchased Murray County land lots of in the Georgia Land Lottery were pouring into the area.

Settlement began in earnest when the Grand Bay Land Company began offering ten acre lots for sale in the early 1900s.

The Tempe Land and Improvement Company was formed to sell lots in the booming town.

< http :// www. flheritage. com / preservation / markers / markers. cfm? ID = duval ></ ref > In 1885, the San Pablo Diego Beach Land Co. sold town lots ranging from $ 50 to $ 100 each along with lots from $ 10 to $ 20 per acre within of the new seaside resort “ Pablo Beach ”.

Two lots were donated by the Marion Land and Improvement Company and the land was fenced until construction could begin.

When the grade was completed the Lincoln Land Company gave lots to all those who would move their buildings to the " Railroad Addition ".

Before his death in 1838, Stevens founded the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, which laid out a regular system of streets, blocks and lots, constructed housing, and developed manufacturing sites.

In 1757, three joint owners of a tract purchased from the West Jersey Land Society began laying out streets and building lots at Calvin's Ferry.

In 1877, the Point Pleasant Land Company bought the old Forman Farm, on what is now Route 35 South, between Forman and Elizabeth Avenues and began selling lots.

The Cedar Cliff Land Company ran newspaper advertisements targeted at upwardly mobile immigrants who worked in Paterson's silk industry, offering the city-sized lots for sale at auctions ( with free lunches and brass bands ) held at St. Mary's Parish Hall, and also opened the Cedar Cliff Silk Mill, which became one of several silk mills in the community.

The Northern Land and Townsite Company, a division of the Great Northern, platted the town and sold lots in June 1914.

Loomis deeded to the land to Sherwood H. Sleeper who subsequently deeded the land to the Northern Town and Land Company or Corporation, who surveyed it into lots.

Land was split into lots measuring by and sold to new settlers.

Land owned by Dr. Hemingway was surveyed and the lots auctioned off.

Land for a new city was purchased and platted into streets and lots around 1911.

In 1876 the Texas Land Company auctioned lots in anticipation of the arrival of the International-Great Northern Railroad when Taylor was founded that year.

Three years earlier, the Chevy Chase Land Company had brought suit against a developer who had begun to sell lots to black people in a planned subdivision called " Belmont " on the grounds that the developer had committed fraud by proposing " to sell lots ... to negroes.

From " the top of Pisgah ," i. e., Mount Nebo, an area which belonged to Moab, Moses surveyed the Promised Land ( Deuteronomy 3: 27 ; 32: 49 ), and there he died ( 34: 1, 5 ).

Land development companies had bought most of the Kensington area by 1911, when it was first surveyed.

In 1871, The National Land Company surveyed and planned the first town there, naming it Bosland in the hopes of attracting the cattle trade.

The Lincoln Land Company, recognizing the potential of the site, surveyed and plotted the town site of Gretna in 1887.

The Shenandoah Land and Improvement Company bought land around town and surveyed the corporate limits.

The town site was surveyed April 21, 1900 by Ashland B. Smith of the Lincoln Land Company of Nebraska, and in June the land was sold to its residents for one dollar by the president of the real estate extension of the CB & Q.

Land had been sold before anyone set foot in the largely unexplored territory and the city ( the basis for the future central business district ) was surveyed and planned in a remarkably short space of time.

The Land Ordinance of 1785 established a standardized system for surveying the land into saleable lots, although Ohio had already been partially surveyed several times using different methods, resulting in a patchwork of land surveys in Ohio.

Map showing states surveyed by General Land Office

# A survey township is simply a geographic reference used to define property location for deeds and grants as surveyed and platted by the General Land Office ( GLO ).

Townships were originally surveyed and platted by the US General Land Office using contracted private survey crews and are marked on the U. S. Geological Survey maps of the United States of America.

Land for the town was first surveyed in 1849, then again in 1853.

Land was to be systematically surveyed into square townships, six miles ( 9. 656 km ) on a side.

Ministry of Land under the firm surveyed by the National Oceanographic Research Institute, Changwon, integrated look at the length of the coastline, the longest in Masan area, Jinhae area, Changwon City in the shortest.

Unlike the rest of the Northwest Territory, which was surveyed more or less uniformly under the Public Land Survey System, sections of the Ohio Lands were incrementally granted to various parties and were surveyed using disparate survey systems.

The college was founded by Utica financier Nicholas Devereux, one of the first to gain land grants in newly surveyed Cattaraugus County from the Holland Land Company.

Townships were originally surveyed and platted by the US General Land Office using contracted private survey crews and are marked on the U. S. Geological Survey topographic maps of the United States of America.

In 1886 in order to prevent the selling of the mountains to European settlers, the local Ngati Tuwharetoa iwi had the mountains surveyed in the Native Land Court and then set aside ( whakatapua ) as a reserve in the names of certain chiefs one of whom was Te Heuheu Tukino IV ( Horonuku ), the most significant chief of the Māori Ngati Tuwharetoa iwi.

This Bureau of Land Management map depicts the Public Domain Lands surveying | surveyed and platted under the auspices of the General Land Office to facilitate the sale of those lands.