Substantial swampy areas in Florida and Louisiana are also unsurveyed.īoth New York and Pennsylvania have metes-and-bounds surveys, but in the western parts of these states, the metes-and-bounds form square townships many of which are also civil townships. Sizeable portions of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona are unsurveyed. Portions of the Texas State Survey use square townships. A 150,000-acre (61,000 ha) area in southern Indiana (Clark's Grant) is not surveyed into townships, but is still a gridded survey. Most of Ohio is surveyed using the Public Land Survey System, but several sizable areas are metes-and-bounds, including the Virginia Military Reserve, Donation Tract, French Grant and the three Moravian grants (Gnadenhutten, Schoenbrunn and Salem). Similarly, Vermont and New Hampshire are mostly metes-and-bounds states, but have areas in the north that are surveyed into townships not oriented to true north. The remainder of the state is on metes and bounds. A region in the central part of the state, made up of 17 surveys, is divided into townships, but these are not oriented to true north. In extreme northern Maine there is an area divided into townships and ranges oriented to true north. In Tennessee, the entire state is surveyed into townships and ranges that make up 13 survey districts of the Tennessee State Survey. In Kentucky, the Jackson Purchase (the area west of the Tennessee River) is divided into townships and ranges.
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