A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.
Often it is represented graphically in a cadastral map.
A cadastre text written in Akkadian on a terracotta tablet; from the 18th century BC in Sippar, Iraq, and held by the Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul
Cadastre survey marker from the South Tyrol mountains, 2018
BLM cadastral survey marker from 1992 in San Xavier, Arizona
In the United States, a plat (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 the purpose of selling the described lots; this has become known as subdivision.
A pamphlet for a walking tour of Boise's original ten blocks