[TML] Threadjack Counties

[Evyn MacDude]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:25 AM, Garry Ward wrote:

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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.

That I knew......

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

This is the question. The Act talks about statehood and being a  
territory
not much about the internal arraignment.

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 I believe it was superceded by the Homestead Act of 1862, which  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

Pretty much. then layer on the railroad grants it's gone.

Evyn MacDude
infojunky at ceecom.net

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