United States. Surveyor General
United States. Surveyor General
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Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
Surveyor General of the United States United States. General Land Office. Surveyor General of the United States
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
Sources
found: LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: United States. Surveyor General; estab. 1796 to succeed the U.S. Geographer (created 1785) [no publs. in LC data base]; remained independent until 1836 when came under jurisdiction of General Land Office; under Surveyor General there was a surveyor for each state or territory, later changed to regional surveyors. Office continued until abolishment of General Land Office in 1946)
notfound: NUCMC data from Univ. N.D. Lib. for Dakota-Montana boundary survey records, 1885 (United States Astronomer and Surveyor)
Editorial Notes
- [Cannot identify with United States. Astronomer and Surveyor]
Change Notes
1983-04-09: new
1995-08-07: revised
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