Introducing the Public Land Survey System

Always looking for new junk to fill up the map with features to place on the map, it’s the…

Sure, you’re saying, “Hey Dan, just another boring grid overlay. Like UTM.”

No. Property, roads, and even e. g ,
Burkle addressing system - Wikipedia are all aligned on it.
And your United States Geological Survey quadrangles wouldn’t be the same without it.

I swear, it’s not just a figment of your imagination like your average grids grids are. Not as ‘real’ as administrative boundaries are but at least it doesn’t have touchy issues like my last flopped proposal,

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