The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a land partioning system used in the United States. Land in the public domain (and some privately held land) throughout the U.S. is subdivided by guidelines of this rectangular system of surveys. Land is divided into 6-mile-square townships, and townships are further subdivided into 36 one-mile- square sections. Subdivision continues into quarter sections, quarter-quarter sections, or irregular government lots. Permanent markers or a monument denote the section corner. The PLSS maps sections above depict the subdivisions.
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