LEGAL LAND DESCRIPTIONS AND BASIC MATH
Course Objective: To provide basic training essential to employment in the field of Federal Indian Lands, as it relates to land descriptions, surveys, map-reading, boundaries and basic math.
- SURVEYS AND LAND DESCRIPTIONS
- Role and Importance
- General Land Office/Bureau of Land Management
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Definitions
- Land Description
- Legal Description
- Sufficient Description
- Methods of Describing Land
- Public/Rectangular Land Survey (Aliquot Part)
- True Metes and Bounds
- Quasi Metes and Bounds
- Recorded Subdivision
- Rectangular Surveys
- Brief History
- Definition of Cadastral Surveys
- Prime/Principal Meridian & Base Line
- Townships and Ranges
- Sections
- Riparian Considerations
- True Metes and Bounds
- Brief History
- Using the Protractor and Scale
- Quasi Metes and Bounds
- Strip Descriptions
- “Of” Descriptions
- “More or Less”
- Recorded Subdivisions
- Townsites
- Housing Subdivisions
- Industrial Parks
- MAPS AND MAP-READING
- GLO/BLM Survey Plats
- Reservation Boundary Maps
- County Plat Books
- BIA Road Atlas Maps
- USGS Quads/Topographical Maps
- Aerial Photographs and Use of the Stereoscope
- Maps as Title Documents
- Subdivision Plats
- Rights of Way
- Dedications
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- Computing/Measuring Acreage
- Dot Grids
- The Planimeter
- BOUNDARIES AND BOUNDARY DISPUTES
- Conducting Research
- Identifying and Describing Problems
- Problem Resolution
- Administrative
- Legislative
- Judicial
- THE IMPORTANCE OF FIELD WORK
- Using a Tape and Compass
- Locating Property from Land Descriptions
- Running a Basic Traverse
- Natural vs. Artificial Monuments
- Locating Corners and Property Lines
- Risks and Responsibilities
- Conveyances and/or Partition by Deed
- Wills
- Leases
- Land Assignments/Possessory Interest Holdings
- BASIC MATH RELATING TO INDIAN LANDS
- Fractions
- Decimals
- Percents
- Conversion Methods