Survey system comparisons

The Dominion Land Survey (Canada) and the Public Land Survey System (US) are cousins. Both are rectangular township grids built on sections and quarters, but they number and reference land differently.

Most US states use the PLSS township-and-range grid. Texas does not. It kept the GLO abstract-and-survey system from its days as an independent republic.

The Dominion Land Survey and the National Topographic System both appear in western Canadian land work, but they describe land in very different ways.

Ontario lot-and-concession descriptions and Prairie DLS descriptions both identify land, but they come from different survey histories.