The Navajo meridian, established in 1869,[1] is one of the two principal meridians for Arizona, the other being the Gila and Salt River meridian. Its initial point was stated as latitude 35° 45' north, longitude 108° 32' 45" west from Greenwich,[2] but has been revised as 35°44′56″N 108°31′59″W / 35.74889°N 108.53306°W[3] The Navajo meridian and baseline were used to set townships and ranges in a special survey for the original Navajo Reservation,[4][5] and was set at the eastern boundary of that reservation.[4] The Arizona lands surveyed using the Navajo meridian and baseline were ranges six west to ten west and townships one north to fourteen north,[5] and included Canyon de Chelly National Monument.[6]
While the above-mentioned Arizona lands still reference the Navajo meridian and baseline,[5] in New Mexico the surveys of lands originally surveyed under it were canceled in 1936,[4] and have since been resurveyed using the New Mexico meridian and baseline.[5] In Arizona, only the portions of the Navajo Reservation that are east of the Hopi Reservation were surveyed using the Navajo meridian and baseline.[5][7]
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edit- ^ United States Geological Survey and United States Forest Service (May 2003) National Mapping Program Technical Instructions Part 5: Public Land Survey System Standards for USGS and USDA Forest Service Single Edition Quadrangle Maps, p. 5A-3, draft
- ^ Raymond, William Galt (1914). Plane Surveying for Use in the Classroom and Field (via Internet Archive). New York: American Book Company. p. 458.
- ^ "List of Meridians" from Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States; 1973, prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, Technical Bulletin 6; pub. U.S. Dept of Interior, from Principal Meridian Project
- ^ a b c Hubbard, Bill, Jr. (2009) "Navajo Meridian, 1869" American Boundaries: The nation, the states, the rectangular survey University of Chicago Press, Chicago, p. 338, ISBN 978-0-226-35591-7
- ^ a b c d e Zajac, Terrence M. and Myler, Charles E. (1996) Arizona Real Estate: Practice and Law Real Estate Education Co., Chicago, Illinois, ISBN 0-7931-0106-9
- ^ "Act Authorizing Establishment of Canyon de Chelly NM" Appendix 6 of the Administrative History of Canyon de Chelly, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior Archived 28 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bureau of Land Management, United States Department of the Interior (3 February 2000) Federal Register 65(No.23): p. 5365 Archived 23 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
External links
edit- "Cadastral Survey [Navaho]". U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on 10 December 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- "Principal Meridians and Base Lines". U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- "Navajo Principal Meridian, Coyote Canyon, Navaho Nation, New Mexico". Principal Meridian Project. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- "Navajo Meridian". The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Retrieved 6 October 2012.