Choctaw meridian
The Choctaw meridian is a meridian that governs the surveys in most of central Mississippi, USA. It begins on the Choctaw baseline, latitude 31° 54' 40" north, longitude 90° 14' 45" west from Greenwich and runs north to the south boundary of the Chickasaw cession, at latitude 34° 19' 40" north. The surveys of Mississippi by the General Land Office begun in 1831 "used the 'Old Choctaw Line' as the 'base meridian' of their efforts to transform the landscape from a landscape of imperial violence to a field of national development."[1]
References
- Johnson, Walter (2013). River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780674074880. LCCN 2012030065. OCLC 827947225.
- Raymond, William Galt (1914). Plane Surveying for Use in the Classroom and Field (via Internet Archive). New York: American Book Company.
External links
- "Cadastral Survey [Choctaw Meridian]". U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
- "Principal Meridians and Base Lines". U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
- "Choctaw Principal Meridian, Georgetown, MS". Principal Meridian Project. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
- "Choctaw Meridian". The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
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