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2. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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   Sections are customarily surveyed into smaller squares by repeated halving and quartering. A quarter section is 160 acres (65 ha) and a "quarter-quarter section" is 40 acres (16 ha). In 1832 the smallest area of land that could be acquired was reduced to the 40-acre (16 ha) quarter-quarter section, and this size parcel became entrenched in ...

3. Geography of Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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   Georgia has almost eight million acres (32,000 km 2) of prime farmland while over 60% of the land is made up of pine forests. Georgia has 70,150 miles (112,900 km) of streams and rivers, 425,000 acres (1,720 km 2) of lakes, and approximately 4,500,000 acres (18,000 km 2) of freshwater wetlands. Manganese, iron, copper, and other minerals make ...

4. Land value tax - Wikipedia

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   A land value tax ( LVT) is a levy on the value of land without regard to buildings, personal property and other improvements upon it. [1] It is also known as a location value tax, a point valuation tax, a site valuation tax, split rate tax, or a site-value rating . Some economists favor LVT, arguing it does not cause economic inefficiency, and ...

5. Georgia Land Lotteries - Wikipedia

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   In 1807, land lots were 202.5 acres (0.8 km 2). In 1820, land lots were 250 acres (1.0 km 2) and 490 acres (2.0 km 2). In 1821, land lots were 202.5 acres (0.8 km 2). In the 1832 Land Lottery area, land lots were 160 acres (0.6 km 2), while in the 1832 Gold Lottery area, land lots were 40 acres (0.2 km 2). History of system. Prior to 1803 ...

6. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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   The Public Land Survey System ( PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of ...

7. Land value tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Land value taxation (i.e. property tax applied only to the unimproved value of land) has a long history in the United States dating back from Physiocrat influence on Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. It is most famously associated with Henry George and his book Progress and Poverty (1879), which argued that because the supply of land is ...