Federal land surveyors' field notes [microform]. 1804-1856.

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Federal land surveyors' field notes [microform]. 1804-1856.

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Manuscript field notes describing all Illinois townships. Compiled by survey teams under contract to the U.S. Surveyor General and the U.S. General Land Office. Most townships are comprised of 6 square miles containing 36 sections, each 1 mile square. The notes chiefly describe township and section lines, and the manner in which corners were marked, but occasionally include brief mention of natural features and vegetation, including prairie, timber, bodies of water, salines, salt licks, islands, soil quality, sloughs, and fields. Man-made features infrequently described: wagon trails, roads, settlements, buildings, Indian reservations, traces, and boundaries of French, English, and Indian claims. Names of surveyors, chainmen, flagmen, and other Land Office officials regularly included. Once a township survey was completed, the notes were forwarded to the Surveyor General for approval and subsequent compilation of manuscript plat maps for each township. Title, dates, description, and additional information: Descriptive inventory of the archives of the State of Illinois / by Victoria Irons and Patricia C. Brennan. Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Archives, 1978 p. 645-649. The field notes form part of ISA Record Groups 953.5 and are part of: United States. Surveyor General. U.S. Surveyor General's records for Illinois. Variously dated 1804-1970.

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