Townships and sections, only found in southern Texas, follow the same style as the Public Land Survey System but do not include ranges. This is because original measurement lines were drawn before county lines. These are Spanish grants, surveyed on the " metes and bounds" system of measurement, and are of irregular shape and size.Ĭounties are contained within railroad districts, but township/section, block, and league/labor measurements are not required to follow county boundaries. Below this are the Texas railroad districts, of which there are 12.
In Texas, the highest level of land subdivision is the boundary of the state itself. Railroad district (12 total, county boundaries).The subdivision levels in Texas are as follows: General Subdivisions Selected Texas Statutes and Boundary Decisions for Land Surveyors, Land Title Agents and Title Attorneys, Second Edition. The most important of these is the vara, which, while ambiguous in the past, was legally established to be exactly 33 and 1/3 inches long in June 1919.
The Texas Land Survey System is often measured in Spanish Customary Units. Land grants from the state of Texas to railroad companies were often patented in blocks and sections, and occasionally in units of square miles, officially considered sections. Texas, along with the original thirteen states and several others in the Southwest which were originally deeded with Spanish land grants, does not use the Public Land Survey System (also known as the Section Township Range and the Jeffersonian System).
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