Subdivision of A Section
Sections are (often) broken up into 40 acre blocks, or quarter quarter sections. These are labeled as follows:
| NWNW | NENW | NWNE | NENE |
| SWNW | SENW | SWNE | SENE |
| NWSW | NESW | NWSE | NESE |
| SWSW | SESW | SWSE | SESE |
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