Navajo meridian and baseline
The Navajo meridian, established in 1869,
While the above-mentioned Arizona lands still reference the Navajo meridian and baseline,[5] in New Mexico the surveys of lands originally surveyed under it were canceled in 1936,[4] and have since been resurveyed using the New Mexico meridian and baseline.[5] In Arizona, only the portions of the Navajo Reservation that are east of the Hopi Reservation were surveyed using the Navajo meridian and baseline.[5][7]
See also
Notes
- ^ United States Geological Survey and United States Forest Service (May 2003) National Mapping Program Technical Instructions Part 5: Public Land Survey System Standards for USGS and USDA Forest Service Single Edition Quadrangle Maps, p. 5A-3, draft
- ^ Raymond, William Galt (1914). Plane Surveying for Use in the Classroom and Field (via Internet Archive). New York: American Book Company. p. 458.
- ^ "List of Meridians" from Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States; 1973, prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, Technical Bulletin 6; pub. U.S. Dept of Interior, from Principal Meridian Project
- ^ ISBN 978-0-226-35591-7
- ^ ISBN 0-7931-0106-9
- ^ "Act Authorizing Establishment of Canyon de Chelly NM" Appendix 6 of the Administrative History of Canyon de Chelly, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior Archived 28 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bureau of Land Management, United States Department of the Interior (3 February 2000) Federal Register 65(No.23): p. 5365 Archived 23 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- "Cadastral Survey [Navaho]". U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on 10 December 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- "Principal Meridians and Base Lines". U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- "Navajo Principal Meridian, Coyote Canyon, Navaho Nation, New Mexico". Principal Meridian Project. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- "Navajo Meridian". The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Retrieved 6 October 2012.