In the late 1700s, after the Revolutionary War, the United States government found itself land-rich and cash-poor. The original idea of dividing land acquired by the United States into rectangles was probably Thomas Jefferson’s, but no one can take all of the credit.
The PLSS was a big government operation and, believe it or not, it was designed principally by a committee and approved by Congress. With a simple glance at a PLSS map, a settlor understood what they were buying and where their boundaries would be located. government divided millions of acres into small parcels that could be bought by settlors at a low price.
This grid is how we all came to own the land. This is a visible testament to the original government survey of United States lands, referred to as the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). When you fly west over the United States from Ohio and cross over Minnesota, you see one of the most remarkable achievements of humankind: fields, property lines, and roads predictably laid out along north-south and east-west lines. This article describes how the survey was done and reviews some of the most salient Minnesota case law. The Public Land Survey System (PLSS), launched in Ohio in 1785, is the source of all real estate titles. Its measurements are sacrosanct in law, but recovering the original section corners presents a challenge.
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