PLSS sections, quarter-quarter survey cells, and sections with held historic GLO patent locations; not a current ownership map.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A vertically oriented color map shows a long, irregular landform surrounded by blue water, with numbered rectangular survey cells overlaid across it. Alternating pale tan and cream areas distinguish portions of the grid, while gray-blue irregular shapes appear within the landform and faint coordinate lines cross the surrounding water. A legend appears at upper left, a scale bar at lower left, and a heading with a subtitle appears above the map.
A model wrote this. It was shown the image and the catalogue record together, and asked to keep them apart — what it saw is here, what the record told it is under "taken from the record" below. It is still wrong often enough to matter, about who is pictured, where, when, and what is happening. Read it as a way to find the image, never as evidence about it. If you can correct it, please do: write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com, or see how corrections work. Someone who recognises a face or a shoreline knows more than the model did.
Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); BLM Cadastral Survey / PLSS and BLM General Land Office Records; Michigan Geographic Framework PLSS; USGS 3DEP (public domain).
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Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
Beaver Island land-survey context PLSS sections, quarter-quarter cells, and historic GLO patent locations Survey / historic-record context PLSS sections PLSS quarter-quarter cells Sections with historic GLO patent locations
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
The catalogue identifies this as a plate in the Land Survey Atlas, described as showing PLSS sections, quarter-quarter survey cells, and sections with held historic GLO patent locations. It is explicitly not a current ownership map. The drawing is credited to the archive's own data, with underlying data from OpenStreetMap, BLM cadastral and General Land Office records, Michigan Geographic Framework PLSS, and USGS 3DEP.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
Small labels within the survey cells and along the map margins are not fully legible.
Rights and credit
CC BY 4.0 for the drawing; underlying data under its own terms (see credit)
Credit this to Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); BLM Cadastral Survey / PLSS and BLM General Land Office Records; Michigan Geographic Framework PLSS; USGS 3DEP (public domain). when you use it.
Stated by this archive, which drew the plate.
Provenance
- Held by
- Beaver Island Archive
- Collection
- Atlas plates
- Drawn by
- scripts/make_land_survey_atlas.py
- Title from
- this archive, which drew the plate
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“Beaver Island land-survey context”. Beaver Island Archive. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/plate/beaver-island-land-survey/.
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