The baseline meets its corresponding principal meridian at the point of origin, or " initial point ", for the land survey.
22.
An 1836 government survey plat of Indiana Survey Township 36N, Range 9W, 2nd Principal Meridian, with the modern borders of Highland outlined in red.
23.
Most of Attica is in Section 3 of Township 32 South of Range 9 West ( S3-T32S-R9W ) of the 6th Principal Meridian.
24.
The park is marked with two monuments that show where the two mismatched baselines meet the principal meridian at the North Initial Point and South Initial Point.
25.
It is located on the southern county line, about southwest of Iowa City ( at Township 78 North, Range 7 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian ).
26.
In expanded form this would read " the Northwest quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section 34 of Township 3 South, Range 1 West, first Principal Meridian ".
27.
Tiffin established the scheme of guide meridians and standard parallels for townships distant from the principal meridians and baselines, which became a feature of the Public Land Survey System.
28.
The baron homesteaded the quarter beside Richelieu, NW Tsp 19-Rge 14-W Second Principal Meridian, and lived in a house he built there until 1888.
29.
Mansfield is credited with " considerable scientific ability and high standards of workmanship . " He laid out astronomically the Indiana baseline and Second Principal Meridian, in spite of the difficulties.
30.
The Treaty of Fort Meigs granted his six surviving children 640 acres on the east side of the Auglaize River, T4S R5E of the First Principal Meridian, in Auglaize County, Ohio.
