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  • Pakistan Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (formerly Surveyor General of Ceylon) Surveyors general in the United States and its colonial predecessors: Surveyor General...
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    Territory. The Surveyor General was later merged with the United States General Land Office, which later became a part of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management...
    53 KB (6,038 words) - 17:26, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Founding Fathers of the United States
    The Founding Fathers of the United States, commonly referred to as the Founding Fathers, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders...
    213 KB (18,958 words) - 08:55, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Territorial evolution of the United States
    The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776...
    288 KB (10,799 words) - 07:26, 27 August 2024
  • The Surveyor-General of Victoria is the public service officer nominally responsible for government surveying in Victoria, Australia. The original duties...
    63 KB (2,131 words) - 07:16, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Perrysburg, Ohio
    by Edward Tiffin, Surveyor General of the United States. This survey was performed in late June and early July 1816, by surveyors Joseph Wampler and...
    26 KB (2,597 words) - 13:55, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory
    The Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory was a United States government official responsible for surveying land in the Northwest Territory in the...
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  • USC&GS Surveyor, the name of more than one ship of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey USS Surveyor (1917), an armed steamer in commission in the United...
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  • Thumbnail for Birmingham, Michigan
    the 1807 Treaty of Detroit. However, settlement was delayed, first by the War of 1812. Afterward the Surveyor-General of the United States, Edward Tiffin...
    32 KB (3,366 words) - 21:17, 8 August 2024
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    Jared Mansfield (category Surveyors General of the Northwest Territory)
    founded United States Military Academy at West Point. Again at Jefferson's appointment, Mansfield served as the Surveyor General of the United States from...
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    and the principle of least squares method. The surveyor must be able to distinguish between accuracy and precision. In the United States, surveyors and...
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    Simeon De Witt (category New York State Engineers and Surveyors)
    Geographer and Surveyor General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Surveyor General of the State of New York for the fifty years...
    18 KB (2,037 words) - 19:24, 28 May 2024
  • (October 29, 1748 – June 16, 1818) was a surveyor, an American Revolutionary War patriot, and twice a United States Senator from Tennessee. Smith was born...
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  • William McRee (category United States Army officers)
    William McRee was an officer in the United States Army and later a Surveyor General of the United States. Fort McRee was named in his honor. McRee was...
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  • Thumbnail for United States Capitol
    The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the...
    95 KB (9,848 words) - 18:58, 25 August 2024
  • Most presidents of the United States received a college education, even most of the earliest. Of the first seven presidents, five were college graduates...
    37 KB (1,518 words) - 14:44, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Washington
    who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army...
    225 KB (24,230 words) - 06:12, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of surveying in the United States
    The history of surveying in the United States included the mapping of large, unknown territories and the layout of the District of Columbia. Several presidents...
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    Rufus Putnam (category Surveyors General of the Northwest Territory)
    defeated. In 1796, Putnam was appointed by the President as the first Surveyor General of the United States, a position he held until 1803. As Ohio residents...
    26 KB (2,796 words) - 18:24, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Treaty of Greenville
    George Washington as surveyor general of the United States, surveyed and marked the Treaty Line. There were also other forts along the Great Lakes, such...
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