3. Streets running along Township/Range/section lines:
for Kent County, MichiganWhen the State of Michigan began surveying township sections in the 1830's, it provided for a 4-rod (66 foot) wide street right-of-way along each Section Line and many of these streets still exist and match roughly to the section lines.
Warning: Streets stop, start, jog, are combined, re-named, vacated, go around lakes, wind up hills. Section lines do
not.100 links = 1 chain = 4 rods = 66 feet, the usual width of a two-lane road.
Kent County Townships arranged in geographic order, top to bottom, West to East:
Tyrone Solon Nelson Spencer
Sparta Algoma Courtland Oakfield
Alpine Plainfield Cannon Grattan
Walker Grand Rapids Ada Vergennes
Wyoming Paris Cascade Lowell
Byron Gaines Caledonia Bowne
For specific streets see 3A East West 3B South North
From Article: Land Intro
From Heading Geography and the City of Grand Rapids
From web site: MyCityofGrandRapids.info