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The townships are referenced by a numbering system that locates the township in relation to a principal meridian (north-south) and a base line (east-west). The sections can be further subdivided for sale.

Each 36-square-mile (about 93.2 km 2) township is divided into 36 sections of one square mile (640 acres, roughly 2.6 km 2) each.

Of the civil townships shown on this map, only Pine Township exactly matches a survey township with 36 sections.Ī survey township, sometimes called a Congressional township or just township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System and by Canada's Dominion Land Survey is a nominally-square area of land that is nominally six survey miles (about 9.66 km) on a side.