Maps showing yearly progress of Illinois surveys, 1837-1852.

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Maps showing yearly progress of Illinois surveys, 1837-1852.

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Maps prepared to accompany Surveyor General annual reports to the General Land Office Commissioner provide a graphic representation of survey progress in each township. Progress was monitored by indicating which townships had been completely surveyed; resurveyed; subdivided; or were under contract for surveying.

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Illinois State Archive

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United States. Surveyor General

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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...