Township designations indicate the location north or south of a base line, and range designations indicate the location east or west of the Principal Meridian.ĭue to such things as survey errors, poor instrumentation, or difficult terrain it is common for actual sections to differ from the PLSS ideal. Each township is identified with a township and range designation. Sections were further divided into quarter sections, quarter-quarter sections, or irregular government lots. Townships were subdivided into 36 one-mile square sections. The PLSS typically divided land into 6-mile-square townships. The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a way of subdividing and describing land in the United States. What do township, range, and section mean?
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