a map of a surveyed piece of land, showing boundaries, lots, and
a small clustered rural settlement with basic services.
a small rural settlement, smaller than a village, with few or no
describes property boundaries using natural features and compass
east-west adjustment lines in township & range system to correct
farmsteads spread individually across the landscape
federal grid system dividing land into 6×6 mile townships with 3
federal law granting 160-acre quarter-sections to settlers who i
houses grouped closely in a central village, fields extending ou
linear settlementbuildings arranged along a line (road, river, l
narrow lots fronting a river or road, extending back in long str
the law establishing the township and range rectangular survey s
the method used to measure, divide, and record land ownership
the spatial arrangement of human habitation across a landscape