PS Surveying Exam Guide 2026: Boundary Law, Standards, and Practice
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Which board regulates professional land surveyors in Wyoming?
Wyoming Surveying Law
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Prepare for the 2026 NCEES PS exam with July 2026 pass rates, the current five-domain blueprint, official reference rules, test policies, and the July 2027 transition.
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Original monument
Boundary Law and Evidence
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Which national examinations must a Wyoming PLS applicant pass in addition to the Wyoming requirements?
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Acronym for the township-and-range grid established by the ordinance of May 20, 1785.
Rectangular surveys
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PS Exam Framework and Boundary Evidence
1.1 Current NCEES Format and Blueprint
Study guide
Approximately how long is the Wyoming state-specific land surveyor examination?
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Controlling elements in a deed
Wyoming surveyor licensing statutes are primarily found in which part of Wyoming Statutes?
Numbered strip of townships, six miles wide and running north-south, counted east or west from the principal meridian.
Which administrative rules govern the Wyoming Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors?
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Parol evidence in boundary work
What is the principal meridian governing most of the PLSS in Wyoming?
Public Land Survey System
___ line: the east-west reference run from an initial point, from which townships are counted north and south.
1.2 Legal Evidence Framework
Which second principal meridian, in addition to the Sixth, was used in Wyoming?
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Term Match
Adverse possession
In the PLSS, how many sections are nominally contained in a standard township?
Kind of corner in the federal rectangular surveys whose original position cannot be recovered from traces or testimony, so it is restored by proportionate measurement.
How are the 36 sections of a PLSS township numbered?
Prescriptive easement
Which BLM manual provides the controlling principles for restoring PLSS corners?
Point in the federal rectangular surveys whose position is fixed by operation of law, whether set with a monument or only protracted on the plat.
1.3 Parol Evidence, Prescription, Adverse Possession, and Acquiescence
What is the distinction between a 'lost' corner and an 'obliterated' corner?
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Term Pairs
Boundary by acquiescence
When is single proportionate measurement used to restore a lost corner?
Corner ___: written record of a public land corner's establishment or restoration that a surveyor must deposit with the county clerk within 90 days.
Corner records
When is double proportionate measurement used to restore a lost corner?
Riparian vs. littoral rights
In the PLSS, where is the regular quarter-section corner placed when subdividing a section?
Preferred minimum monument for a restored public land survey corner: a galvanized metal tube at least 24 inches long and 2 inches across with a cap at least 2.5 inches wide.
Monumentation
1.4 Legal Descriptions and Conveyance Types
How is the center of a regular section located when subdividing it?
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Accretion vs. avulsion
Why do the north and west tiers of sections in a township often contain fractional lots?
Fractional subdivision of a section, left where the regular parts do not fit, whose area is computed from the field measurements.
Subdivisions
What is a 'dependent resurvey' as conducted by the BLM?
Senior and junior rights
In retracement, which order of importance governs conflicting boundary evidence under PLSS and Wyoming practice?
Wyoming Boundary Law
Parcel segregated by resurvey because it cannot be fitted to a regular subdivision of its section.
Professional Practice and Standards
2.1 Records, Field, GNSS, and Computations
Among controlling calls, what is the general order of dignity from highest to lowest?
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