Choctaw meridian explained

The Choctaw meridian is a meridian that governs the surveys in most of central Mississippi, USA. It begins on the Choctaw baseline, latitude 31° 54' 40" north, longitude 90° 14' 45" west from Greenwich and runs north to the south boundary of the Chickasaw cession, at latitude 34° 19' 40" north. The surveys of Mississippi by the United States General Land Office begun in 1831 "used the 'Old Choctaw Line' as the 'base meridian' of their efforts to transform the landscape from a landscape of imperial violence to a field of national development."^[1]

See also

• List of principal and guide meridians and base lines of the United States

References

• Book: Raymond , William Galt . Plane Surveying for Use in the Classroom and Field . via Internet Archive . 1914 . American Book Company . New York .

External links

• Web site: Cadastral Survey [Choctaw Meridian] ]. U.S. Bureau of Land Management . 2012-09-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130105115231/http://www.blm.gov/cadastral/meridians/missalalou.htm . 2013-01-05 . dead .
• Web site: Principal Meridians and Base Lines . U.S. Bureau of Land Management . 2012-09-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121018100501/http://www.blm.gov/cadastral/meridians/meridians.htm . 2012-10-18 . dead .
• Web site: Choctaw Principal Meridian, Georgetown, MS . Principal Meridian Project . 2012-09-30.
• Web site: Choctaw Meridian . The Center for Land Use Interpretation . 2012-09-30.

31.8747°N -90.245°W

Notes and References

1. Book: Johnson, Walter . River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . 2013 . 9780674074880 . Cambridge, Mass. . 35 . en-us . 2012030065 . 827947225 . Walter Johnson (historian).