3. Which of the survey systems would be most likely to produce a linear settlement pattern? Long Lot O Metes and Bounds O Township and Range O Rectangular Surveys A linear settlement pattern is likely to occur in all of these equally
The Long-Lot survey is a method of a survey that separates land through long, narrow plots that extend back from rivers, highways, or canals. Examples include Texas and Louisiana in the U.S.
Initially, the Riverine long-lot surveys have been used in many areas of Texas for around 150 years, starting in the Spanish colonial period and lasting well into the age of statehood. Hardly any precedent method has been developed for long-term usage neither in Spain nor in New Spain. Records show that the long-lots spread from Central Europe to Texas, across northern France, Quebec, as well as the French colonies of Louisiana and Missouri and. Long-lot survey made an imprint on the road, street, and cadastral patterns that are still evident.
The long-lot land survey method was cheap and simple and provided equal quantities of land to each farm on the terraces, the floodplain, as well as the interfluves. This provided access to a transport artery (road or river) for an optimum number of farms. Thus every family might live within its own farmland, and still be near to its neighbors. Each family eventually established its estate, clearing the woods around the farmhouse first and putting more remote areas until later. Some peasants have constructed isolated ranches at the furthest ends of their farmland in order to minimize the work of transporting crops to the farm and to return the manure to the fields.
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