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[RC] weird question, off topic, re land - B. L. KossowanHi All. This discussion about how many acres you need to put on a ride raised some other questions in my tiny brain. Here in Western Canada, farmland is gridded out on townships of 36 square miles, termed sections. Each section has 320 acres, further divided into quarters, with the whole works, including roads, mapped over grid segments that are one mile wide and two deep. Rural roads in general follow the grid, so you can tell how far you've travelled by following the fence lines running between quarter sections. Even where there is no fence, you can sort of see where quarters meet. Everything is numbered, so if somebody wants to know where I live, I can give them a Legal Subdivision number (LSD) for the part of the quarter my place occupies. I'd tell you'all, but then you'd probably want to come and share my beer, so you'll have to email privately for that one. >grn< We have one industrious ride manager who has managed to put on a 50-mile ride in a quarter section of heavily treed land, using lots of twists and turns - kind of like Billy's travels in the Family Circle cartoon. So, what I would like to know, was farmland in your part of the United States surveyed on the same or on a similarly rigid pattern? The way I figure it, when the English first sent the surveyors out west, they were looking for something much more regulated than the hodgepodge at home. Yours in cabin fever, Brenda K., Leslieville =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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