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Sectional Map of Minnesota, 186 --
In May of 1858, Minnesota became the thirty-second state admitted to the Union. Often referred to as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes," the name has its roots in a Native American language and means "cloudy or sky-tinted water." The term "sectional" or "section" refers to the Public Land Survey System that was adopted for surveying land in the Northwest Territory and much of the western United States. Each "section" was a thirty-six-square-mile township that was further divided into thirty-six one square mile blocks of land. |