To earn cash, the country enacted the Land Ordinance of 1785, and the Public Land Survey System began as a way to parcel out spaces. Townships were built around six-mile-by-six-mile plots and ...

It encompasses both the Point of Beginning for the federal Rectangular Survey System (RSS), enacted by the Land Ordinance of 1785, extending across the United States and is the baseline for laying out ...

The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided a structured and orderly process for westward ...