Editing Metes and bounds (section)

==History of use in the United States ==
This system was imported to the original colonies that formed the United States. It is also used in some states that were previously part of one of the [[Thirteen Colonies]], or where land was allocated before 1785. These include West Virginia, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee and Vermont. Because Texas was an [[Republic of Texas|independent republic]] prior to statehood, its land system is primarily metes and bounds.

Election constituency boundaries continue to be described by the use of metes and bounds, even in jurisdictions where land [[plat]]s are not otherwise based upon metes and bounds. Such mapping generally uses streets and their intersections to define the boundaries of election districts, wards, precincts, ''inter alia''. ''E.g.'': "From the intersection of Main Street and John Doe Boulevard, thence north to ABC Drive, thence generally east along the median of ABC Drive to 123rd Street, thence..."