[time-nuts] Obscure terms

[Eric Williams]

I used to work with CDF.  Wildfires are measured in chains, not acres.

Property lots in the US are located by range and township.  It's a system
where the origin moves from place to place.  I was told the founding fathers
invented it to make it purposely hard for a central government to find
things.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:56 PM, WarrenS <warrensjmail-one at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jim
> Silly question, You must not live in California.
> Of course it is 1/640 of a square mile
> or was it 1/460 of a square something else?
> In any case, everyone in California knows it is 1/50,000 of what an average
> wild fire burns.
> ws
>