Re: Your roads, east west north south or slanted?

Posted by MarkB_MI on March 13, 2011 at 18:05:34 from (166.217.39.149):

In Reply to: Your roads, east west north south or slanted? posted by buickanddeere on March 13, 2011 at 10:51:46:

I always found it interesting that many of the roads in Ontario are laid out on a diagonal rather than N-S/E-W. Any idea why that's the case?

Most of the midwestern and western states are laid out on a north-south east-west grid. This pattern was established by the Northwest Ordinance of 1785, which decreed how the midwestern states (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan) were to be divided. This precedent was followed to some degree for most of the states that followed. (I think Hawaii would be the obvious exception.) The original 13 states are laid out in a somewhat less logical fashion, and the roads tend to follow the terrain or perhaps old indian trails.

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