Manual of Surveying Instructions - Part 5
This online engineering CPD course examines the preparation of survey records and the execution of special and mineral surveys.
This course focuses on special instructions, field notes, and plats, including technical standards for area computations and the index of segregated tracts. It covers special surveys such as Indian allotments, townsites, and nonrectangular metes-and-bounds surveys. Furthermore, this course describes mineral surveys for lode and placer claims, the establishment of millsites, and the technical requirements for mine and mineral segregation surveys.
In addition, this course explores the core of official Federal survey documentation, special instructions, field note records, and plat representations. It explains how surveys are authorized, how to document field results, and how to align legal descriptions with performance goals, all rooted in Federal land management.
This 10 CPD online course is applicable to civil engineers, surveyors, as well as other technical professionals who are interested in learning more about special and mineral surveys.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Identifying the essential components of Special Instructions and the standardized formatting for Field Notes and Plats used in official records
- Calculating parcel sizes using the Double Meridian Distance (D.M.D.) method and applying the Rule of Approximation to excess acreage
- Understanding the procedures for special surveys, including townsite planning, Indian allotments, and reclamation farm units
- Describing the requirements for mineral surveys, focusing on lode and placer claims, end line parallelism, and extralateral rights
- Understanding the protocols for mine surveys and mineral segregation surveys used to define boundaries between mineral and nonmineral lands
- Analyzing the legal and technical significance of tract index tabulations and the reestablishment of lost corners of mineral surveys
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