[or-roots] Legal land descriptions

[Leslie Chapman]

This may be a link I or somebody else has posted before, but it is such a
good site I am posting it again;

http://www.outfitters.com/genealogy/land/

the page this link will lead you too has a good overview of all of our
methods of describing property in this country and for details on the
various topics it has links to some more very good sites.

http://www.outfitters.com/illinois/marshall/twpmap_marshall.html

is the link that led me there, it has a very good graphic depiction of how
townships and ranges work and a short discussion of the differance between
townships of government survey and "named townsips"

Les c