Plat of the seven ranges of townships being part of the territory of the United States, N.W. of the River Ohio

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LOC-99441743-display

Caption

Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Catalog notes

The orderly township grid of the Seven Ranges makes the beginnings of the federal rectangular survey system visible. Published by Mathew Carey from work associated with Thomas Hutchins, this plat offers a clear connection between survey practice and the transfer of land into a new administrative framework. The grid’s apparent simplicity invites discussion of the fieldwork behind it and of the inhabited lands over which federal systems were imposed.

Original catalog record, source and attribution