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17-730: Arkana may refer to: Arkana, Louisiana , a community in the United States Arkana, Baxter County, Arkansas , a community in the United States Arkana Publishing , a publishing imprint of Penguin Group of mainly esoteric books Keny Arkana , a French rap artist Arkana, a character in the French animated TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath

34-698: A lumber mill in Arkana during the 1920s and 1930s. Portions of the Burton Mill caught fire on five occasions in 1922. Circa 1920, the community of Arkana was the site of the Arkana School. The population of Arkana in 1920 was 63. In April 1936, Louisiana Highway 10 (now Louisiana Highway 3 ) between Arkana and Plain Dealing was completed. It was reported that "Arkana will have a good road leading both north and south." Arkana's population in 1940

51-526: A plat ( / p l æ t / or / p l ɑː t / ) ( plan ) is a cadastral map , drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bearing between section corners, sometimes including topographic or vegetation information. City, town or village plats show subdivisions broken into blocks with streets and alleys. Further refinement often splits blocks into individual lots , usually for

68-671: A scrivener's error. Such plats can sometimes serve to relocate lot-lines or other features, but laws usually tightly restrict such use. A vacating plat functions to legally void a prior plat or portion of a plat. The rules normally allow such plats only when all the platted lots remain unsold and no construction of buildings or public improvements has taken place. Other names associated with parcel maps are: land maps, tax maps, real estate maps, landowner maps, lot and block survey system and land survey maps. Parcel maps, unlike any other public real estate record, have no federal, state or municipal oversight with their development. Plats contain

85-530: A loss of $ 45,000. This was one of several sawmill fires in Arkana; an earlier fire had occurred in 1892. By the 1890s, a history of northwestern Louisiana called Arkana "a new railroad town", and in 1912, the Bossier City Banner described Arkana as a "place and community". The population of Arkana was 12 in 1900. A tract of 4,000 acres was platted for the Arkana townsite in 1915, with plans for small parcels to be sold to settlers. Arkana

102-454: A plat map marks an important step in the process of incorporating a town or city according to United States law. Because the process of incorporation sometimes occurred at a courthouse , the incorporation papers for many American cities may be stored hundreds of miles away in another state . For example, to view the original United States General Land Office plat for the city of San Francisco, California , filed in 1849, one must visit

119-413: A sport utility vehicle model See also [ edit ] Arcana (disambiguation) Arkarna , an electronic music group Ark (disambiguation) Arkona (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Arkana . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

136-584: The Museum of the Oregon Territory in Oregon City, Oregon , as at that time Oregon City was the site of the closest federal land office to San Francisco. A plat of consolidation or plan of consolidation originates when a landowner takes over several adjacent parcels of land and consolidates them into a single parcel. In order to do this, the landowner will usually need to make a survey of

153-724: The Sea Arkana , a character from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! Arkana, a furniture manufacturer of the Eames era Arkayna, a main character from the new Nickelodeon show Mysticons . She is a princess, and leader of the Mysticons, where she is called Dragon Mage. Arkana, an online literary magazine published by the Arkansas Writers MFA Program at the University of Central Arkansas Renault Arkana ,

170-692: The early settlers of Arkana was Jackson Clark Byram, who established a homestead in 1848. He was the veteran of three wars and had a large family. Arkana was originally a rail station on the Cotton Belt Route (the St. Louis Southwestern Railway), a major railroad connecting the US states of Missouri , Arkansas, Tennessee , Louisiana, and Texas . A sawmill owned by the Arkana Lumber Company operated in Arkana until 1899, when it burned, at

187-419: The governing body, which would then have to approve it. A plat of subdivision also applies when a landowner/building owner divides a multi-family building into multiple units. This can apply for the intention of selling off the individual units as condominiums to individual owners. A correction plat or amending plat records minor corrections to an existing plat, such as correcting a surveying mistake or

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204-401: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arkana&oldid=1131286055 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Arkana, Louisiana In the 1890s, Arkana was described as a new railroad town, and

221-412: The parcels and submit the survey to the governing body that would have to approve the consolidation. A plat of subdivision or plan of subdivision appears when a landowner or municipality divides land into smaller parcels. If a landowner owns an acre of land, for instance, and wants to divide it into three pieces, a surveyor would have to take precise measurements of the land and submit the survey to

238-442: The purpose of selling the described lots; this has become known as subdivision . After the filing of a plat, legal descriptions can refer to block and lot-numbers rather than portions of sections . In order for plats to become legally valid, a local governing body, such as a public works department, urban planning commission, zoning board, or another organ of the state must normally review and approve them. The creation of

255-592: Was 63. In 1952, The Plain Dealing Progress reported that the hard surface road between Hope, Arkansas , and Arkana had been extended. In 1980, it was reported that the Crystal Oil and Land Company was pumping over 2 million cubic feet of gas per day from a site 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southwest of what had become known as "the old Arkana townsite." Plat In the United States ,

272-433: Was later the site of a rail station, lumber mill, church, post office, and school. The community was also the site of the Arkana and Eastern Railroad Company, a rail line which operated between Arkana and Springhill in the early 20th century. Arkana was named "ark-" plus "-ana" from "Louisi ana " and " Ark ansas". The community was at altitude 244 feet (74 m) and in the 1940s had a population of 50 people. One of

289-548: Was soon home to several stores, a church and a post office. The Arkana townsite was developed by the Cotton Belt Land and Development Company, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Arkana was also the site of the Arkana and Eastern Railroad Company, a short rail line which operated between the communities of Arkana and Springhill in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Burton Lumber Company operated

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