PLSS Map

Source: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alfrankl/landrecords.htm

Direct link to map: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alfrankl/franklin6.jpg

A Public Land Survey Systems (PLSS) map is used by the United States government to divide areas of public domain. This was established in the Land Ordinance of 1785. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided lands into 6 sqare mile townships. These divided sections can then be divided again in to sub-sections and so on.