THE HISTORY OF LAND CADASTRE: OHIO’S MAJOR LAND SURVEYS (PART 2)

Andrey Tesalovskiy

doi:10.55186/2413046X_2025_10_1_8

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THE HISTORY OF LAND CADASTRE: OHIO’S MAJOR LAND SURVEYS (PART 2)

Published in MOSCOW ECONOMIC JOURNAL · Volume 10, Issue 1 · Pages 102–125 · Rubric: Land Management, Cadaster, and Land Monitoring

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55186/2413046X_2025_10_1_8

Received: 28.12.2024 Accepted: 25.01.2025 Published: 25.01.2025

Authors

Andrey Tesalovskiy

Academic degree: candidate of technical sciences

Science rang: docent

Vologda State University Head of Department · Department of Urban Cadastre and Geodesy · Russian Federation · Vologda

ABSTRACT

The article deals with the work on surveying and cadastral division of the territory of the state of Ohio after important changes in the US land legislation of 1796. Cadastral division of Between the Miami Rivers Survey was started in 1788, due to fraud with land sales, it was resumed by Congress surveyors at the beginning of the XIX century, the beginning of the counting of the districts is the Ohio River and Great Miami, the numbering of sections continued the system laid down until 1796. During the cadastral division of Ohio River Survey in 1796, a transition was made to a new numbering system for cadastral quarters. The decision on the surveying of Congress Lands East of Scioto River was made in 1796, work began in 1799, the numbering of columns – to the west from the border of the Elicott line, rows – from south to north from the starting point of the surveying of Ohio River Survey. The surveying of The Congress Lands North of the Old Seven Ranges began in 1801; the horizontal rows were numbered from the southernmost bend of the Ohio River in this territory. Cadastral division of Congress Lands West of Miami River (Miami River Survey) began in 1798, numbering of rows – from the Great Miami River, columns - to the west and east from the First Principal Meridian. The Michigan Survey lands turned out during surveys was established that the South of Lake Michigan was located to the south, which did not correspond to the Ohio border indicated in the Northwestern Ordinance of 1787. The cadastral division of Michigan Survey remained made from the Michigan Meridian, the numbering of townships from it. The lands South and East of the First Principal Meridian and North and East of the First Principal Meridian have been surveyed since 1817. The numbering of the townships is from west to east and north and south from the Initial point at the intersection of the First Prime Meridian and the Baseline.

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Congress Lands East of Scioto River, Congress Lands West of Miami River, The Congress Lands North of the Old Seven Ranges, Between the Miami Rivers Survey, Michigan Survey, South and East of the First Principal Meridian, North and East of the First Principal Meridian, Symmes Purchase, Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Tesalovskiy A. A. THE HISTORY OF LAND CADASTRE: OHIO’S MAJOR LAND SURVEYS (PART 2) // MOSCOW ECONOMIC JOURNAL. 2024. no. 1. pp. 102-125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55186/2413046X_2025_10_1_8. (Date of access 02.10.2026).

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Andrey Tesalovskiy. "THE HISTORY OF LAND CADASTRE: OHIO’S MAJOR LAND SURVEYS (PART 2)." MOSCOW ECONOMIC JOURNAL 10.1 (2024): 102-125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55186/2413046X_2025_10_1_8.

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Tesalovskiy A. A. (2024). THE HISTORY OF LAND CADASTRE: OHIO’S MAJOR LAND SURVEYS (PART 2). MOSCOW ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 10(1), 102-125. https://doi.org/10.55186/2413046X_2025_10_1_8

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Andrey Tesalovskiy. "THE HISTORY OF LAND CADASTRE: OHIO’S MAJOR LAND SURVEYS (PART 2)." MOSCOW ECONOMIC JOURNAL 10, no. 1 (2024): 102-125. https://doi.org/10.55186/2413046X_2025_10_1_8.

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