Agenda

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Friday, February 14, 2025 
9:00 am – 1:30 pm CST

 

Presented by: Anthony “Tony” M. Gregory, PS

Metes and Bounds and What Came Before the US Public Land Survey System (PLSS)

  • Basic land description concepts: distances, directions, circular curves, mathematical closure, state plane coordinates
  • Reading a metes and bounds description
  • Drawbacks of metes and bounds system

Basics of the U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS)

  • Development of PLSS, advantages and disadvantages
  • Principal meridians and baselines
  • The township: the basic building block of the PLSS
  • Ranges and sections
  • Numbering sections
  • Irregular sections and aliquot parts

Describing and Locating Lands in the PLSS

  • Conventional parcels
  • “Part of” descriptions
  • Reading a PLSS description
  • Writing a description
  • Drawing a description
  • Software/websites for mapping, drawing and locating described lands

   

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Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.

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Credits

Engineers
4.0 PDHs*

Land Surveyors
4.0 PDHs*

 

Continuing Education Credit Information

This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 4.0 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in most states.

*This webinar is not approved for New York licensees; please refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility. 

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider License No: CEA362), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00049300) and North Carolina (S-0130). 

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for land surveyors licensed in Indiana (License No. CE10600325), Maryland, and North Carolina (S-0130). This webinar has been approved for 4.0 PDHs for land surveyors by the Florida Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers and by the Missouri Board of APEPLSPLA. 

Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the webinar for those who attend the entire course and score a minimum 80% on the quiz that follows the course (multiple attempts allowed). 

On-Demand Credits

The preceding credit information only applies to the live presentation. This course in an on-demand format is not pre-approved by any licensing boards and may not qualify for the same credits; please consult your licensing board(s) to ensure that a structured, asynchronous learning format is appropriate. 

Speakers

Anthony “Tony” M. Gregory, PS

Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering Technology

Mr. Gregory is a former department head at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Indiana. He is registered as a professional surveyor in Indiana and Illinois and consults as a project surveyor at Abonmarche through their Hobart, Indiana office. Mr. Gregory has presented numerous seminars on various land surveying topics to professional land surveyors, surveying technicians, attorneys, title company officials, and real estate professionals through various settings. He is a member of the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors (ISPLS), the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association (IPLSA), and the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). Mr. Gregory previously served on the ISPLS Board of Directors and is a past society president. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of NSPS and chairs the NSPS Education Committee. Mr. Gregory and his wife, Jen, previously co-pastored a church congregation in Grove City, Ohio for two and a half years.

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