Ahhhh...if sections only WERE actually square and DID actually contain 640 acres, how much simpler life would be for surveyors, owners, etc... Now, I can't comment on the midwest plains or the east, but out here (Calif, OR) things aren't that regular, and I'm NOT talking about the adjustments made for laying out squares on a round surface (always along the north and west section lines, if I remember correctly) NOR the allowances made for public lake areas etc ("Gov't Lots"), which're separate situations. Out here, some of the old GLO (Gov't Land Office Offical Surveys) that the Township/Sections are laid out from, were then made by what's mre kindly called "reconnaissance methods" (ie, guessed at because the country was rough and the surveyor was the low bidder), so we have Offical GLO Plats with lots of section lines off true with consequent variations in acreage... As John T said, reading legal desc's is a highly complex field, which has its own rules and backgrounds, which sometimes (often?) leaves you with less (or more) than is apparent to the inexperienced... As John T said, Township, in sectionland lingo is NOT a POLITICAL Township but a square grid of 36 sections...well, relatively square...mostly...
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