If you were flying across the Western United States and saw the landscape was divided by roads and fields that ran precisely east-west and north-south in regular squares and rectangles you might logically assume that this part of the country had been surveyed using what system?

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The Township and Range system was used to survey the Western United States in a grid-like pattern with squares and rectangles. This system was established by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to facilitate the survey and sale of land in the Western territories. Metes and bounds, Long Lot, and Lot and block systems are not used in this region or in this pattern.

If You Were Flying Across the Western United States and Saw