A series of “townships” ranging from north to south. Thus a description of land as in T 2 N, R 3 W means that it is in Township 2 North and Range 3 West of a certain meridian point.
1851. If … I could only get the township and range, I’d make a cahoot business with old man Doublejoy.—J. J. Hooper, ‘Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs,’ &c., p. 37 (Phila.).
