Chapter 10

Question 1

What is a legal description of a property?

Answer 1

Method used to identify a property’s unique location

Question 2

Who identifies the boundaries of a property using measurements and references?

Answer 2

a surveyor

Question 3

What are metes?

Answer 3

Measurements in a survey that refer to distance

Question 4

What are bounds?

Answer 4

Compass directions to property boundaries in a survey

Question 5

What are monuments (or benchmarks)

Answer 5

Fixed objects used to establish boundaries in a survey

Question 6

What is Point of beginning?

Answer 6

Point at the edge of the property where the survey begins

Question 7

What is Closing (in terms of a survey)

Answer 7

When the survey returns to the point of beginning

Question 8

What are the methods used to legally describe a property?

Answer 8

Surveyor’s method (metes and Bounds)
Government survey method
Lots and Blocks

Question 9

What is another name for the lot and block method of legal description?

Answer 9

Plat method

Question 10

What is the plat method?

Answer 10

Legal description method used to identify small parcels of property in subdivided areas and cities

Question 11

What are the elements in the plat method of land description?

Answer 11

streets, lots, and blocks

Question 12

What are the items included in a plat method legal description?

Answer 12

Lot number
Block Number
Subdivision name
Plat book page and number

Question 13

What is an assessor’s parcel number?

Answer 13

Number assigned to a parcel by a county property assessor to uniquely identify the property

Question 14

Which is the most accurate method of legal description?

Answer 14

Surveyor’s method (Metes and bounds)

Question 15

What is the format of directions in a surveyor’s legal description?

Answer 15

North or south followed number of degrees then east or west (N 37o E)

Question 16

What is the government survey method?

Answer 16

Form of legal description that divides the surface of the earth into a grid with numbered squares

Question 17

What is another name for the government survey method of land description?

Answer 17

Rectangular method

Question 18

What is the Tallahassee principal meridian?

Answer 18

North/South government survey method line that goes through Tallahassee

Question 19

What is the Tallahassee baseline?

Answer 19

East/West government survey method line that goes through Tallahassee

Question 20

What is the Tallahassee government survey marker?

Answer 20

The intersection where the Tallahassee principal meridian and Tallahassee baseline meet

Question 21

What are meridians (or range lines)?

Answer 21

North/South lines that run parallel to the Tallahassee principal meridian

Question 22

What are baselines (or township lines)?

Answer 22

East/West lines that run parallel to the Tallahassee baseline

Question 23

What is the distance between meridians (range) lines?

Answer 23

6 miles

Question 24

What is the difference between baselines (township lines)?

Answer 24

6 miles

Question 25

What is a Range (in terms of a survey)?

Answer 25

Vertical area between meridians (or range lines)

Question 26

What is a tier (in terms of a survey)?

Answer 26

horizontal area between baselines (or township lines)

Question 27

What is each square created by drawing range lines and township lines called?

Answer 27

Township

Question 28

How do you locate a township?

Answer 28

Identifying the Tier (T) and the Range (R) where it is located

Question 29

What is the notation used to identify a township that is 1 township south of Tallahassee and 1 range west?

Answer 29

T1S, R1W

Question 30

What is the notation used to identify a township that is 5 townships north of Tallahassee and 2 ranges east?

Answer 30

T5N, R2E

Question 31

What is the notation used to identify a township that is 2 townships north of Tallahassee and 5 ranges West?

Answer 31

T2N, R5W

Question 32

What is the area of a township?

Answer 32

36 square miles 6 miles squared

Question 33

What are guide meridians and correction lines?

Answer 33

method by which the curvature of the earth is accounted for in the government land description method Guide meridians and correction lines are drawn on the map

Question 34

What is a check (in a survey)

Answer 34

Intersection of guide meridians and correction lines that form a 24 mile square area

Question 35

How many sections is a township divided into?

Answer 35

36 one square mile sections

Question 36

What are the dimensions of a section?

Answer 36

1 square mile 1 mile by 1 mile

Question 37

How many acres are in each section?

Answer 37

640 acres

Question 38

What is the section number that is immediately south of section 1 in a township?

Answer 38

12

Question 39

What is the number of acres in the NW 1/4 of a section?

Answer 39

160