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  2. State Farm - Wikipedia

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    State Farm is the largest property and casualty insurance provider, and the largest auto insurance provider, in the United States. [5] State Farm is ranked 39th in the 2024 Fortune 500, which lists American companies by revenue. [6] State Farm relies on exclusive agents (also known as captive agents) to sell insurance.

  3. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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    The legal description of a tract of land under the PLSS includes the name of the state, name of the county, township number, range number, section number, and portion of a section. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. History of surveying in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Surveying was not only for the wealthy plantation owners, but the entire new nation needed to be surveyed and resurveyed. Most of all, the proposed new capital city, bearing Washington's name, needed to be surveyed. A two-man team would survey what became the District of Columbia in 1791. The first was Benjamin Banneker, a free ex-slave, who ...

  6. List of industry trade groups in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Asian American Hotel Owners Association. The Broadway League. Entertainment Software Association. Fantasy Sports Trade Association. Game Manufacturers Association. Hotel Technology Next Generation. International Art Materials Trade Association. International Association of Travel Agents Network. International Festivals and Events Association.

  7. Survey marker - Wikipedia

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    Survey markers, also called survey marks, survey monuments, or geodetic marks, are objects placed to mark key survey points on the Earth's surface. They are used in geodetic and land surveying. A benchmark is a type of survey marker that indicates elevation ( vertical position ). Horizontal position markers used for triangulation are also known ...

  8. National Cooperative Soil Survey - Wikipedia

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    The National Cooperative Soil Survey Program (NCSS) in the United States is a nationwide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies and institutions. This partnership works together to cooperatively investigate, inventory, document, classify, and interpret soils and to disseminate, publish, and promote the use of information about the soils of the United States and its trust ...

  9. State Farm again is seeking huge increases in home ... - AOL

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    State Farm is seeking increases of as much as 52% for some of its residential insurance rates in California, which could ramp up the financial burden for many homeowners and renters in the state ...