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The U.S. Public Land Survey System for Missouri: A Manual on the GLO System, Resurveys, Example Problems and GLO Plats
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About The U.S. Public Land Survey System For Missouri: A
Product Description The U.S. Public Land Survey System (USPLSS) was born in 1785 and has been evolving ever since. The General Land Office (GLO) and, later, the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) system of laying out our sections, townships and ranges has been refined, changed, modified, improved, and, of course, has benefited from improvements in equipment and advances in technology. There have been eight editions of USPLSS instructions published from 1785 - 2009 by either the GLO of the BLM. The results are regional differences in the USPLSS across our United States. from Ohio (where our System began with its initial field surveys) to Alaska (where surveying work continues). And, there are differences in the USPLSS from state to state as legislatures have enacted statutes pertaining to the System in their state, and each state's courts have interpreted the statutes, or, established a resurvey legal principle through case law. While the broad view of the USPLSS is similar, each state will have its own peculiarities, specific to only that state. Textbooks and reference manuals about the USPLSS in general and about generic resurvey procedures on the System are available. Textbooks or reference manuals about the USPLSS which are state-specific and cover the original GLO instructions, resurvey procedures and applicable state statutes and case law are not available. Until now...for Missouri. This book is a complete synthesis of the USPLSS for Missouri. Briefly, it contains: The early history of the System, from 1785 - 1815; The French and Spanish in Pre-America Missouri; The "shaping" of Missouri...its boundaries; Laying out the original GLO surveys; GLO protraction and platting; Missouri court decisions relative to the USPLSS; Historical review of Missouri statute law relative to the USPLSS (1814 to date); "Best practices" for reestablishing lost and restoring obliterated corners of the USPLSS; Example calculation problems applying coordinate geometry to lost corner reestablishment; Example GLO plats with notes. This comprehensive coverage of the USPLSS for Missouri will provide the surveying student, educator and practitioner (and those preparing for licensure as a Professional Surveyor in Missouri) with a single book that will fill the reference void that existed in the past. The book has seven chapters, three tables, twenty-eight figures, forty-eight protraction and example problems, eighty-nine example GLO plats, four appendices and a Glossary and "Further Reading" list. About the Author A second generation surveyor, Dr. Elgin was raised in St. James, Missouri and in his late parents' surveying business located in nearby Rolla. After high school Dick joined the Army, went through helicopter flight school, was made a Warrant Officer, and spent 1969 in Vietnam flying the OH-6A “LOH” and the ubiquitous UH-1 "Huey" with the Americal Division. Following the Army he received the BSCE and MSCE degrees from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology, S&T) and his PhD from the University of Arkansas. Leaving Arkansas he joined the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at S&T as an Assistant Professor (1980-1984) and still is an Adjunct Professor, teaching surveying courses. From 1984 until 2008 Dick was the owner and President of Elgin Surveying and Engineering, Inc. Semi-retired, Dick currently works for Archer-Elgin Surveying and Engineering, LLC. He is a former member of the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects; is a Past-President of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors; is a member of both S&T's and the University of Arkansas' Academy of Civil Engineers; is a member of S&T's Order of the Golden Shillelagh. With Drs. David Knowles and Joe Senne, Dick coauthored the "Celestial Observation Handbook and Ephemeris" and codeveloped the "ASTRO" celestial observation software products. With David Knowles
