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by cat199 2734 days ago
Not an expert, but generally the further west you go in the US (until you hit the west coast, which was already settled before the big westward expansion), the more grid-like things are, especially in areas without many geographic features

as I understand it, this is because the land was more and more allocated in logical blocks -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System#Size...

I mean, we even have completely square or nearly completely square states -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado

etc