Congress Lands

The Seven Ranges were sold in the same manner, and could be considered Congress Lands, but get a special category to itself.

Townships are numbered from south to north, with irregularities caused by the course of the Great Miami River.

These lands are south of a narrow strip next to the Michigan border, west of the Firelands and the Congress Lands North of Old Seven Ranges, North of the Greenville Treaty Line and the Virginia Military District, and east of Indiana.

In all five of Ohio’s Congress Lands, townships are divided into 36 one mile square sections.

[2] Section sixteen of each survey township was set aside for support of public schools.

Congress Lands in Ohio
six mile square divided into 36 mile square sections numbered starting with one in the northeast proceeding westward to six in the northwest corner then to seven south of six eastward to twelve south of one then thirteen to twenty four in like manner and finally twenty five to thirty six in the southwest corner
United States General Land Office plan for numbering sections of a standard survey township , adopted May 18, 1796