Meanders of various bodies of water and islands, ca. 1830-1855.

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Meanders of various bodies of water and islands, ca. 1830-1855.

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Course and bank surveys for bodies of water and islands occasionally indicate Surveyor's name and survey date. Survey field notes indicate each course or bank portion direction and distance; meander township and section legal description. Rivers surveyed include Apple; Big Blue; Calumet; Chicago; Current; Fever; Illinois; Iroquois; Kankakee; Kaskaskia; Macoupin; Menominee; Merrimack (Meramec); Mississippi; Osage; Pecatonica; Plumb; Rock; Sac; Sangamon; Sinsinniwa (Sinsinawa); Spoon; and Sugar. Lakes include Calumet; Impassible; Michigan; and Peoria. Sloughs include Crooked; Fort Chartres; Harris; and Henderson's. Also included are Bledsoe's; Carter's; Campbell's and Hurricane Islands; unnamed islands in the Mississippi, Rock, and Illinois Rivers; Mare-de-Ogee (Meredosia) and Cat Tail Swamps; and the Chenal (Channel) Ecarte.

.1 cubic ft.ledgers 6 volumes.

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Federal land surveys in Illinois were authorized by Congressional act (March 26, 1804), when the U. S. Surveyor General was given jurisdiction over all public land north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers. Surveys began in the western Vincennes Tract (1804) and southern Illinois (1806), then proceeded northward; covering all but most northern Illinois by 1831. When the Illinois surveys began, the Surveyor General was an independent officer under the President's direct su...