[harywilke]

This brought to mind the checkerboarding in Oregon.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.221692,-122.7898361,242948m/...

[pietervdvn]

Trippy... Looks as if half of the map tiles are not loading, except it is not a technical glitch

[ranit]

Cool! Do you have some good links about the story behind this development?

[thinkling]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)

TL;DR: Railroad developers were granted alternating square mile sections as a reward for their investment.