The most well known unsystematic cadastral method for surveying land is metes and bounds. It is no longer practiced, but much of the US was initially surveyed in metes and bounds. Metes are units of distance and bounds (names of markers) are used to divide up land according to ownership. Since there is typically a strong reliance on landscape features, which could and often did change, move or no longer exist over time, this survey method was considered very problematic.This image is an example of a Metes and Bounds Survey Map. The metes given are 45° southwest, 30 chains. A chain is a unit of measurement sixty-six feet long. There are eighty chains to the mile. The bound is the felled maple.
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