Specifications for Descriptions of Land
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Office of Management and Budget
United States Federal Geographic Data Committee
Specifications for Descriptions of Land:
For Use in Land Orders, Executive Orders, Proclamations, Federal Register
Documents, and Land Description Data Bases
United States Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management
Cadastral Survey
CADASTRAL SUBCOMMITTEE
REVISED 2013
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Specifications for Descriptions of Land:
For Use in Land Orders, Executive Orders, Proclamations,
Federal Register Documents, and Land Description Data Bases
WASHINGTON: 2013
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
For sale by the Public Land Survey System Foundation
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
As the Nation's principal conservation agency, the Department of the Interior
(Department) has basic responsibilities for water, fish, wildlife, mineral, land, park, and
recreational resources. Indian and Territorial affairs are other major concerns of
America's ¡°Department of Natural Resources.¡±
The Department works to assure the wisest choice in managing all of the nation¡¯s
resources so each will make its full contribution to a better United States ¨C now and in the
future.
The Department manages about 500 million acres, or one-fifth, of the land in the
United States. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages more than 245 million
surface acres and also administers more than 700 million acres of subsurface mineral
estate and in all 50 States.
The BLM is the Nation¡¯s surveyor and maintains extensive current and historical
information about land ownership in the United States. Most title to land, public or
private, begins with a land description established by an original cadastral survey.
Security of legal title to land is the fundamental object of the cadastral surveyor¡¯s work.
It is more important now than in the past that the person preparing land
descriptions be knowledgeable of requirements for the preparation of the various types of
land descriptions. It is necessary to use the proper format, terms and phrases, and intent
with qualification to assure the content of the land description is free of ambiguity. The
ambiguous descriptions of the past are the boundary disputes of the future.
Previous editions of Specifications for Descriptions of Tracts of Land for Use in
Executive Orders and Proclamations were issued in 1931, re-issued in 1941 with
corrections as to procedure, revised in 1942, and reprinted without revision in 1960. In
1979 the Specifications was revised and the title was changed to Specifications for
Descriptions of Tracts of Land for Use in Land Orders and Proclamations.
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CONTENTS
Chapter
Page
INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE OF THIS PUBLICATION
1.
LAND DESCRIPTIONS
General Considerations - Purpose
Authority
Descriptions of Land
Types of Descriptions
Description by Reference to Official Records
2.
THE PUBLIC LAND SURVEY SYSTEM
Rectangular Surveys
Preferred Order
The Preferred Method for the Writing of Descriptions
Area
Conventional Symbols and Abbreviations
Examples of Descriptions of Lands based upon the Rectangular Surveys of the
Public Land Survey System
3.
METES-AND-BOUNDS
Natural and Artificial Boundaries
Area
The Parts of Metes-and-Bounds Descriptions
Examples
Caption or Preamble
Body
Clauses
Strip Descriptions
Ambulatory Descriptions
4.
LOT AND BLOCK DESCRIPTIONS
5.
ILLUSTRATIONS (MAPS) AND COORDINATES
Maps to be Published
Survey Plats, Maps or Diagrams Forming Official Supplements
Description by Coordinates
Geographic Positions
Examples of Geographic Coordinate Positions
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FORM AND ARRANGEMENT
Titles
Proclamations
Public Land Orders
Executive Order No. 11030, as Amended
Preparation, Presentation, Filing, and Publication of Executive Orders and
Proclamations
Applicable to All Documents Filed with Federal Register
Applicable to All Proposed Executive Orders and Proclamations
Executive Order No. 10355
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Federal Land Policy and Management Act Withdrawal, Reservation and
Classification of Lands
Department of the Interior Secretary¡¯s Orders
Executive Order No. 13327
Federal Real Property Asset Management
Marine Managed Areas: Best Practices for Boundary Making
INTRODUCTION TO PREVIOUS EDITIONS
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