[TML] Threadjack Counties

[Garry Ward]

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From: "Evyn MacDude" <infojunky at ceecom.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:14 AM
Subject: [TML] Threadjack Counties


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> On Sep 4, 2007, at 11:59 PM, domhanai at juno.com wrote:
>
>> With respect, Indiana county sizes are not typical; they are
>> constrained by decades of gerrymandering
>
> Nope no Gerrymandering in those counties borders, them is damn near
> plumb straight.
>
>> Northwest Ordinance.
>
> ????? 'splain, please?
>
Act of Congress in the 1780s that laid down the rules as to how the 
territory north of the Ohio River, East of the Mississippi and south of the 
Great Lakes was to be settled. It, along with the Land Ordinace of 1785, set 
down that a township was to be 6 miles by 6 miles in size and divided into 
36 one mile square sections which were the smallest units available for 
sale.

I don't recall any rules about how the townships were to be assembled into 
counties.

I believe it was superceded by the Homestead Act of 1862, which applied west 
of the Mississippi.

Garry
>> Counties west of the Mississippi (roughly 60% of contiguous US)
>> have counties 20 times the size of Indiana standard.
>
> Yes, makes sense to me, changing systems of survey allow for broader
> divisions
> of land. Or gotta love the rail roads.
>
>> I'm sure that, with sufficient technology, any size of territory
>> can be placed under a structure (
>
> Yep, but the question was about a single dome.
>
> Evyn MacDude
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