What's the highest numbered township and/or range number you know of?
Are there any over one hundred?
(I'm used to working in T3N, R12W)
I live in T15N R120W 6th PM, and there is a fractional Township (121W) West of me.
Not sure off hand what the maximum Township North is in Wyoming, I am in the Southwest Corner.
The largest North Township "number" is probably in North Dakota, which is in the 5th PM (I think).
Loyal
The GLO Records web site has a bulk data download feature that allows one to download relational databases of all the land records in their system.?ÿ The township database shows that there are three townships in Minnesota that are just below the Canadian border with township numbers of T. 168 N.?ÿ Here is a link to the original township plat for T. 168 N., R. 35 W., 5th Mer. Minnesota.
Doing a similar search for the highest range number confirms what Loyal posted.
ETA:?ÿ Loyal may correct about North Dakota.?ÿ However their survey plats are not on the GLO Records web site.?ÿ I found a few ND patents that are supposedly in T. 168 N., R. 81 W.?ÿ When I checked the land status records the highest township number is T. 164 N. and it is a fractional township closing on the border.
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@gene-kooper In ND the State Water Commission is the record keeper for GLO plats... for whatever reason.?ÿ
NW corner of North Dakota is T164N, R103W. SW corner is T129N, R107W. Both fractional townships.
The NW angle of MN has that beat - just barely.?ÿ 168-35.
In the Texas & Pacific Railway Company Survey, ranges are known as blocks. Block 82 is the equivalent to R82W and is located just north of El Paso. As for Townships, the biggest township number is T10S.
T10S was cut in half because Jacob Kuechler, the guy who laid out the survey, had 4 miles excess distance measurement in 80 miles.
The T&P blocks are generally 6 miles wide and 8 miles tall (but some were 6 miles wide by 18 miles tall) and they definitely weren't laid out in the traditional PLSS manner.
Thank you all for your input.
had 4 miles excess distance measurement in 80 miles.
So just prorate that out...should work out great
So just prorate that out...should work out great
The working theory is that he was using a yard chain (36") instead of a vara chain (33-1/3"). The state cut the survey off at the 80 mile reservation line and those certificates were applied to the excess inside the railroad reservation.
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And to be clear, this issue was just on the surveys west of the Pecos River. East of the Pecos has its own peculiarities.