Township Sections

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Township sections. Townships are divided into 36 mile square sections and each section is identified with a number based on its position. Townships and sections example. Play the 1 city builder that s won the hearts of millions all over the world.

Enter township and range. Each section in a township is divided into either halves or quarters. It does not show individual properties or parcels.

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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. The data shows the township and range systems. Assigned to a township by measuring east or west of a principal meridian.

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. Sections are customarily surveyed into smaller squares by repeated halving and quartering. Land surveying under the public land survey system a section is an area nominally one square mile containing 640 acres with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid.

And then each quarter is divided into halves or into quarters half quarter or a quarter quarter. The northern and westernmost tier of sections in each township are designed to take up the convergence of the east and west township boundary lines or range lines as well as any error in the survey measurements and therefore these sections vary slightly from being one square mile or 640 acres. 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.