Each township is further divided into 36 sections that are one mile square.

Laterally, Kansas was divided into 6-mile squares called townships, which are numbered from 1 to 35, going south from the Nebraska border.

When Kansas was opened for non-native settlement in 1854, surveyors divided the region into 25 ranges east and 43 ranges west of the 6th principal meridian (which follows a line north to south approximately along Highway 81). Survey townships are sometimes called congressional townships, because they were created by an act of Congress-the Land Ordinance of 1785.

The database also includes the names of independent cities (cities of the first and second classes, generally with over 2,000 inhabitants), which are administratively separate and not part of any township).Ī survey township is a geographic unit based on the Public Land Survey System, used to identify parcels of land for deeds and other legal documents. Most listings are for currently-extant townships information about historical townships is gradually being added, but is incomplete. This searchable database/index includes the township's name, the county in which it is located, its population as of the 2000 census, and sometimes brief notes.

Township and range definition