Township And Section
The basic unit of the system a square piece of land one mile by one mile containing 640 acres.
Township and section. 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. If nothing is found then the national atlas database is searched. With quarter sections visible clicking the quarter section will return detailed information for that location.
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. That together manage over 700 million acres. 43 38 19 39 n 43 38.
Note that the national atlas database has only townships no sections. Check the show labels checkbox in the lower left corner of the map to see the names of township and range section and quarter quarter section on the map. Township range and section are abbreviated as t r and s respectively and cardinal bearings from the initial point by n s e and w.
The current view shows township range and section. Zoom in to make quarter section data appear. Townships are divided into 36 mile square sections and each section is identified with a number based on its position.
Thus for example the description t1sr20e s13 mdm reads as follows. Each principal meridian also has its established abbreviation. The northeastern most section is considered the first section labeled 1 with those following taking the next number to the west to complete a six section first row.
Township 1 south range 20 east section 13 mount diablo meridian. A quarter section is 160 acr. 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 number and portion of a section.