Metes, Bounds & Meanders from Kimberly Powell Platting the Land of Your Ancestors In the original thirteen colonies, plus Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Texas, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and parts of Ohio (the state land states) land boundaries are identified according to the indiscriminate survey system, more commonly referred to as metes and bounds. The metes and bounds land survey system relies on several different items to convey a property description: . General Location - details on the property's location, possibly including the state, county, and township; nearby waterways; and acreage. . Survey Lines - describes the boundaries of the property using direction and distance. . Boundary Descriptions - details on natural features found along the property boundaries, such as creeks and trees. . Neighbors - names of neighboring property owners whose land shares a line or adjoins at a corner. For additional information: http://genealogy.about.com/cs/land/a/metes_bounds.htm Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "To live in the hearts we leave behind, is never to have died." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"