Beaver Island land-survey context

TypeMap

ErasModern era

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Eras: Modern era
Concepts: land-surveycartographyhistory

Map: Beaver Island land-survey context. — Beaver Island land-survey contextDrawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); BLM Cadastral Survey / PLSS and BLM General Land Office Records; Michigan Geographic Framework PLSS; USGS 3DEP (public domain). · CC BY 4.0 for the drawing; underlying data under its own terms (see credit)

PLSS sections and quarter-quarter cells are survey geometry. Highlighted sections have a held historic GLO patent location, not a present title, parcel-owner, or tax-record assertion.

Sources

Archive-generated PLSS and historic GLO-patent context plate
PLSS geometry is survey context; GLO patent locations do not establish current ownership. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
scripts · make_land_survey_atlas

Added 3 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island land-survey context”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/map/atlas-beaver-island-land-survey/, accessed [date], citing Archive-generated PLSS and historic GLO-patent context plate.

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