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A Section is made up of 4 Quarter Sections. The Quarters in a Section are described as the North East (NE), North West (NW), South East (SE) and South West (SW) Quarters. Each Quarter Section is approximately 160 acres (65 hectares) and is described by its compass direction.
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A quarter of a section (160 acres) is created by drawing both the north-south half-section line and the east-west half-section line, breaking the section into four parts. Each part of a section can then be broken down using the same method, giving you such things as the east half of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of a section.
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- The Prairies (AB, Sk, MB) and BC's Peace River Region
- British Columbia
- Manitoba's River/Parish Lots
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- Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Canada's Offshore Area
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Township Canada is an intuitive platform for exploring Canadian legal locations, geographic coordinates, and places. It's designed to let you efficiently search legal land descriptions, visualize results on maps, and export data in formats like CSV, KML, Shapefile, DXF, and GeoJSON for easy integration with applications such as Excel, Google Earth,...
In Canada, legal land descriptions uniquely identify land parcels, based on extensive survey grid networks. Township Canada supports various survey grid systems across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and offshore areas in the east coast, west coast, and Hudson Bay.
In these regions, legal land descriptions follow the Dominion Land Survey (DLS) system. Under the DLS system, land is categorized as either west of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Meridians (W1 through W6) or east of the 1st and 2nd Meridians(E1 and E2). Between these meridians lie six-mile-wide columns referred to as Ranges. Ranges are sequen...
In British Columbia, legal land descriptions are structured using the National Topographic System (NTS). This system segments the land into sections categorized by Map Series (ranging from 82 to 104), Map Areas (labeled A through P), and Map Sheets(numbered 1 to 16). Each of these sections is divided into 12 distinct Blocks. These Blocks are then b...
The River Lot/Parish Lot survey system, predominantly found along Manitoba’s rivers such as the Red and Assiniboine, originates from the historic Seigneurial System of New France. This system characterizes the land distribution primarily along these riverbanks. With Township Canada, you can easily locate river, wood, and parish lots in Manitoba. He...
In Ontario, the fundamental unit of land subdivision is the Geographic Township. These townships are further segmented into smaller areas called Concessions. Historically, during Ontario's initial settlement in the 19th century, these Concessions were allocated by the Crown to settlers. In return, settlers were required to build houses, clear land,...
The Federal Government of Canada employs the Federal Permit System (FPS)for survey grids to oversee oil and gas exploration and production on federal lands. This includes areas in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and offshore regions in the Atlantic Ocean near the Maritimes, the Pacific Ocean near British Columbia, and Hudson Bay. The FPS grid s...
Latitude and Longitude, known collectively as geographic coordinates, are used to specify locations on Earth. Latitude lines, or parallels, run east-west and are parallel to the equator. They measure a location's angle north or south of the equator, from 0° at the equator up to 90°N (+90) or 90°S (-90) at the poles. Longitude lines, or meridians, r...
The legal description of land follows a set sequence of quarter section, township, range, and meridian: the designation NW 27-9-25 W2, for instance, means the Northwest Quarter of Section 27 in Township 9 Range 25 West of the Second Meridian.
The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) maps out every inch of public land. This is the base of the cadastral system in the United States. By establishing townships, ranges, sections, and quarter sections, the PLSS provides clarity in property boundaries.
New parcels – Quarter Section LLD or Parcel designator and Extension Number. Remaining portion of source parcels – LLD as shown in Map Search or Parcel Picture with the next available extension
Know why we use the systems of describing land that we do; Understand the different methods of describing real property; Understand the terminology used in the various descriptions; Be able to break down the different types of descriptions into their various parts to aid in plotting or computing same;
