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 United States 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]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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
edit- "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.
31°52′29″N 90°14′42″W / 31.87472°N 90.24500°W
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