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Of townships are surveyed east and west along the baseline and a row is called DueĪnd other factors, no township is exactly six miles square. Measures approximately six miles square on each side. Sumter County eastward to Chambers County. Line" of the northern part of the state is from the Tennessee StateĮxtends southward about 132 miles (22 tiers) to a line running from about North-south line passing just west of downtown Huntsville and is called the Second meridian, used in the survey of the northern part of the state, is a Townships in the southern part of the state Stephens Meridian, ran northĪnd south from that point and the east west "base line" also ran fromġ44 miles (24 tiers) northward from the initial point. Westward it would be near that line) and on the west side of the Mobile river somewhere near the line between Mobile and Baldwin Counties. That point was located near the 31 stĭegree line north (if the line between Alabama and northern Florida were extended Surveyors, selected an initial point from which to begin the survey. Washington County encompassed a large part of what is now southwestern 1805, Gideon Fitz and John Dinsmore were engaged to make surveys in Washington