Potter County , state e. In the state of Texas, this system applies only to the panhandle region of northwest Texas. The panhandle region of Texas was surveyed under this system, but the remainder of the state was surveyed or boundaries decided on the basis of the Spanish land grant system.
To determine this, you need to see all 36 sections in their totality for the entire township numbered as shown below. If any part of a section or sections is missing, then the township is NOT complete. Now, let's look at the Glendale Quadrangle with the township overlays displayed. The orange borders are the outlines of the townships and the purple borders are the outlines for the individual sections. Are there any complete townships on the Glendale Quadrangle? Look at it before you read the answer No, there aren't any complete townships.
How many incomplete townships are there? Count them before you read the answer There are four incomplete townships on the Glendale map. When you need to do this on the Folsom, NM quadrangle, you will need to survey carefully look over the map and determine if there is a complete township on the map. Given the size of a township relative to a , map scale of Folsom, NM quad is the same as that for Glendale below , it is unlikely that there would be more than one complete congressional township on the map area.
Once you've done that, you need to count how many incomplete townships there are. Be careful that you do not count the sections. Township T. The City of Glendale would be in T. Tract books serve as a comprehensive reference to over 10 million of land entry case files held at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
However, they are arranged according to the land description township, range, and section rather than the name of the claimant. They include all applicants for federal land, including those whose claim failed to receive a patent because it was unfinished, forfeited, rejected or cancelled. Finding unpatented entry information. If you know or can guess the state and county where an ancestor started an unfinished, forfeited, rejected, or cancelled land claim, you can search page-by-page through each of the tract books for that county looking for the ancestor's name.
When you find an ancestor's name, the legal land description and land office listed in the tract book is usually enough to order a copy of the unpatented case file from the National Archives. Tract books show the type of land entry, its legal description numbered section, township and range , acreage, price, entryman's name, application date, and if applicable patenting date and numbers. Determine which tract books to search. The following sources can help narrow the number of tract books to search.
Tract book arrangement. Tract book volumes are organized by state, in some states by land offices, and then by township number and range number. Within each tract book volume, the land entries are in order by their legal land description [11] [16] section, township, and range.
Typical tract books list the land entries for anywhere from one to 30 townships; about five townships per tract book seems to be the most common. Within most townships the order is usually by section number. Each land entry in a tract book was recorded across two pages. The townships usually only change one range number or one township number at a time after several pages within a tract book volume listing several townships.
This information is important to helping the National Archives retrieve the land entry case file for you. Memories Overview Gallery People Find. Sign in Create Account. Family Tree. From FamilySearch Wiki. United States. Land and Property. Rectangular Surveys. Numbered Sections [ edit edit source ] The basic unit of the rectangular survey system is the section. The following diagram shows how standard sections are numbered starting in the northeast corner of a township: 6 5 4 3 2 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 18 17 16 15 14 13 19 20 21 22 23 24 30 29 28 27 26 25 31 32 33 34 35 36 One of the center sections of a township was often reserved for community property such as a school or fire station.
Section sixteen was set aside for the use of the public schools. The federal government reserved sections eight, eleven, twenty-six, and twenty-nine to provide veterans of the American Revolution with land bounties for their service during the war. The government would sell the remaining sections at public auction. The minimum bid was dollars per section or one dollar for each acre of land in each section.
From time to time, townships were surveyed that measured only five miles on a side or which had other variations on the usual form of thirty-six one square mile sections. The other type of township is known as a civil township.
Typically, a board of township trustees oversees the township.
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