For some reason Outlook Express doesn't want to send my message, it came through blank. I will try one more time. Florida lands were all "laid out" in township, range, sections, and remained so until they were replatted into lots and blocks for counties or cities. These were specific parcel sizes, and had no relationship to those that were named townships, i.e. Midland Township. In this use it was a synonym for Town of Village, and may or may not have anything to do with the size of the community. The section was the smaller portion, a specific number of sections (I think 36) were included in a township, a specific number of townships were in a range. They read left to right, starting with the smaller segment i.e. Section 1 and 2, Township 35 South, Range 40 East, in the County of __, State of Florida. To find them on a map, you read backwards, find the Range first, then the Township, then the Section(s). These are from Federal land grants and established standardized property descriptions. (Remember the old western movies where they talked about ranch lands in "sections"?)