Housing Watch Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Delaware Wedge - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_wedge

   The Wedge (or Delaware Wedge) is a 1.068-square-mile (684-acre; 2.77 km 2) [1] tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Ownership of the land was disputed until 1921; it is now recognized as part of Delaware. [2] The tract was created primarily by the shortcomings of contemporary surveying techniques when the ...

3. Geography of Maryland - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Maryland

   Geography of Maryland. Physical regions of Maryland. The U.S. state of Maryland has a varied geography. It has an area of 12,406.68 square miles (32,133.2 km 2) and is comparable in overall area with Belgium [11,787 square miles (30,530 km 2)]. [1] It is the 42nd largest and 9th smallest state and is closest in size to the state of Hawaii ...

4. Outline of Maryland - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Maryland

   Maryland – U.S. state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and three nicknames for it (the Old Line State, the ...

5. Mason–Dixon line - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason–Dixon_line

   The Mason–Dixon line, where the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail becomes the York County Heritage Trail near New Freedom, Pennsylvania. The Mason–Dixon line is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as part of the ...

6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Maryland

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of...

   There are more than 1,500 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. State of Maryland. Each of the state's 23 counties and its one county-equivalent (the independent city of Baltimore) has at least 20 listings on the National Register. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent ...

7. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System

   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 the ...