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The Seven Ranges (also known as the Old Seven Ranges) was a land tract in eastern Ohio that was the first tract to be surveyed in what became the Public Land Survey System. The tract is 42 miles (68 km) across the northern edge, 91 miles (146 km) on the western edge, with the south and east sides along the Ohio River .
The Seven Ranges Terminus lies at the northwest corner of the tract in Ohio. The survey marker [5] lies at the corner of four townships, three counties, and three survey tracts: Rose Township, Carroll County, Ohio Township 16, Range 7 of Old Seven Ranges; Sandy Township, Stark County, Ohio Township 17, Range 7 of Congress Lands North of Old ...
Buckeye Council operates three council camps - Seven Ranges Scout Reservation, Camp McKinley, and Camp Rodman. When the Buckeye Area Council merged with McKinley Area Council in 1958, Camp Buckeye and Tuscazoar were operated by the Buckeye Council until 1978 when Camp Buckeye was closed and subsequently sold in 1984. [ 1 ]
The Ohio River Base consisted of the Congress Lands East of Scioto River, and Congress Lands North of Old Seven Ranges. These surveys had vertical rows of six mile square townships called Ranges. These ranges were numbered from Ellicott’s Line, the boundary between Ohio and Pennsylvania, also known as the Eastern Ohio Meridian.
Congress Lands in this ceded area were surveyed 1806-07. This survey had six mile square townships and continued the range, township, and section numbering system of the Ohio River Survey, section numbering being based on the 1796 land act. [7] The two surveys of 1801 and 1806-07 became known as the Congress Lands North of the Old Seven Ranges.
In 1953, the Florida Park Service gave 640 acres from Jonathan Dickinson State Park to the Boy Scouts. The reservation includes Camp Loxahatchee (opened 1955), Camp Clear Lake (1957), and the Mike Machek Trail (1988). Wallwood Boy Scout Reservation: Camp is 25 miles west of Tallahassee. Winn-Dixie Scout Reservation: Central Florida Council: Active