Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands: Federal Survey Plat Books, 1834-1858
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Title: Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands: Federal Survey Plat Books
Inclusive Dates: 1834-1858

Creator:
  • Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands
Call Number: Series 698

Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (21 volumes, 14 packages) and 3 reels of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Certified copies of the original federal survey plat books prepared at the Dubuque Land Office between 1851 and 1858, containing plat maps prepared from the field notes of land surveyors. Shown is total acreage, section lines and numbers, acreages, watercourses, rapids, meanders of rivers and lakes, swamp, mineral diggings, houses, roads, paths, fields, forest cover, prairie, windfalls, meridian variation, type of survey, surveyor’s name, date of contract, amount of land surveyed, date of survey, date cost was charged to Surveyor General's account, and certificate of conformity to the field notes dated and signed by a Surveyor General.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser00698
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