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It will be easier to find and understand the land records of ancestors if you learn something about the Public Lands Survey System and its records. Sections are organized into a 6 x 6 square to form each township. A township consists of 36 sections of one square mile each. In almost all these cases the land was surveyed and described as part of the Public Lands Survey System, which divided the land into Congressional townships on a township and range grid based on rectangular surveys.

The National Archives in Washington, DC has over 10 million land entry case files of individuals trying to obtain a private claim to some of the public land in 30 federal land states from 1820-1908.