Land survey system in the USA

Survey system of the United States

created grid-like land patterns

Kansas & California | Suburban San Fernando Valley | Colorado River Valley | Land

The square patterns seen here are rational expressions of the desire for order in the 1780s when the national land-use system was adopted by the Articles of Confederation Congress.

Land patterns central Kansas | San Joaquin Valley, California

San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, Ca. (1998)

Irrigation in the southern Colorado River Valley, (1999)

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