Imagine flying to other continents and discovering they divide land by natural geographic formations. Americans could never.
natural geographic formations
Do you mean squiggly lines by a drunk British man?
True, but I was referring to copses of trees, creeks, hillsides, slabs of boulder, underground water. Things that are a pain in the ass to farm around so often affect the division of property lines and then the selling rates of land.
That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.
Because only in the US are farm fields rectangular.
A good chunk of them are circular because they can automate watering easier that way.
Aaaaakshully…
It’s sort of a mix of both. Some people like to include walking paths to make everything a little easier/nicer-looking.
