Choctaw Meridian
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The Choctaw Meridian begins on the Choctaw Baseline, latitude 31° 54' 40" north, longitude 90° 14' 45" west from Greenwich, runs north to the south boundary of the Chickasaw Cession, in latitude 34° 19' 40" north, and governs the surveys east and west of the meridian
, and north of the base line.
Meridian (geography)
A meridian is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the South Pole that connects all locations along it with a given longitude. The position of a point along the meridian is given by its latitude. Each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude...
, and north of the base line.