Sections

A section is a square mile of land, also being 640 acres and 1/36 of a Township. Deschutes County is divided into Townships as part of the United States Rectangular Survey System. True north and south lines are divided at right angles and formed into thirty-six square mile townships. The governing survey for Deschutes County is the Willamette Principal Meridian.区段（Section）指面积为1平方英里的土地，等价于640英亩，且为1个镇区（Township）的1/36。德舒特县（Deschutes County）作为美国矩形土地测量系统（United States Rectangular Survey System）的组成部分，被划分为若干镇区。该系统中，真南北向与东西向基准线以直角相互分割，最终形成若干面积为36平方英里的镇区。德舒特县的官方测量基准为威拉米特主子午线（Willamette Principal Meridian）。