<i>SKETCH / of / The Public Surveys / in / IOWA TERRITORY</I>
date: label: date made
content: ca 1840
notes: label: Description
content: The Iowa Territory was created in 1838. This map, created under the auspices of the General Land Office, divided the eastern part of that land into square townships 6 miles on each side (townships at the edges of the state tend to be smaller and irregular in shape). The scale is 18 miles to the inch.
label: Description
content: The identified towns include Bellevue, Benton, Bloomfield, Bloomington, Centerville, Davenport, DuBuque, Farmington, Franklin, Iowa City, Jefferson, Lyons, Marengo, Mt. Pleasant, Moscow, N. York, Peru, Rochester, Rockingham, Salem, Tuscarorah, Van Buren, Washington, and West Point. Towns in Illinois include Cassville, Ft. Armstrong, Ft. Madison, and Rock Island. A Principal Meridian runs just east of Salem, and 1st and 2nd correction lines run east and west.
label: Description
content: Much of the underlying survey was done by William A. Burt, inventor of the solar compass.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Milburn, “Report,” in <i>Public Documents Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States</i> (Washington, D.C., 1841), vol. 3, pp. 57-109.
label: Description
content: C. Albert White, <i>A History of the Rectangular Land Survey System</i> (Washington, D.C., 1983).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: National Archives and Records Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317504
label: catalog number
content: 317504
label: accession number
content: 230397
objectType: label: Object Name
content: map
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 9 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 24.13 cm