KLPaints@aol.com wrote: > > RE: Township 3 South Range 4 West > > Can someone tell me where this is? Is it a town, community, > the boonies, a county? This was on an IT 1900 census. ========== Karen, Hopefully you will get an answer from someone with more details than I have, but if not, here's what I found out.... A while back on the internet, I located a site that explained that the federal government sent out surveyers to plot all the "new" land, and they laid it out in large rectangles with the long sides running east and west. Two of the descriptions used to indicate how much land was involved were "township" and "range". It was sort of like using "square yard" and "square foot". My conclusion was that a "township" and a "range" didn't have anything to do with a "town" or a "range", anymore than a "square foot" and "square yard" has to do with the thing at the end of your leg or the place where you mow grass in front of your house. Jim