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  • How did the Midwest get those perfect squares that you see when you fly over them? (Vanity)

    03/19/2006 9:24:27 AM PST · by SamAdams76 · 81 replies · 960+ views
    Ok, this is driving me nuts and I can't find this in Google searches. During the past week, I took a plane trip to the west coast and back and had window seats both times. I notice that most of "fly-over country" features a grid of near-perfect squares from approx. the Mississipi River to the Rocky Mountains. Apparently these are all roads that are in a criss-cross pattern, intersecting perfectly to create these squares. On most of these squares you can see a single farmhouse with some additional buildings that might be barns, chicken houses, silos, etc. Was this by...