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RE: [RC] weird question, off topic, re land - Peery, Sandra

Title: [RC] weird question, off topic, re land
No grids here in southwest Virginia.  I don't think any of our neighboring states are set up that way either.  Some things are sectioned up due to how the land lays but that is about as "organized" as it gets.

From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of B. L. Kossowan
Sent: Fri 2007-01-12 17:54
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC] weird question, off topic, re land

Hi 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




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