Section Township Range Grid

Also known as the rectangular survey system it was created by the land ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the united states by the treaty of paris in 1783 following the end of the american revolution.

Section township range grid. Blm township and range the bureau of land management blm cadastral survey program is responsible for the official boundary surveys for all federal agencies in the u s. Land surveying under the public land survey system plss a section is an area nominally one square mile 2 6 square kilometers containing 640 acres 260 hectares with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid. A user account is not needed for the features on this web page.

That together manage over 700 million acres. The usgs grid was scanned from a wall map. Township and range alternate grid.

The basic unit of the system a square piece of land one mile by one mile containing 640 acres. Good alternate if there is a gap in the blm data but with less accuracy. Township canada provides an easy and intuitive way to browse and find the canadian legal subdivisions on a map.

The public land survey system plss is the surveying method developed and used in the united states to plat or divide real property for sale and settling. The legal description of a tract of land under the plss includes the name of the state name of the county township number range number section. Otherwise the survey grid can look distorted as it shapes itself to the earth s surface.

As an example the blue shaded box or township is located three townships north of the base line or township 3n. A basic township and range grid a township measures the north south distance from its parallel base line. With this section township range finder you can view and search the public land survey system plss also known as congressional townships all the way down to the section quarter section and quarter quarter section level anywhere in the u s all overlaid on a fully interactive google map.

36 sections arranged in a 6 by 6 square measuring 6 miles by 6 miles sections are numbered beginning with the northeast most section 1 proceeding west to 6 then south along the west edge of the township and to the east 36 is in the se corner. It is located one box or township west of the principal meridian or range 1w. Provides full coverage of all townships but does not have sections or quarter quarter sections.