Range road
A range road in Canada is a road that runs north–south along a range grid line of the Dominion Land Survey. Range roads are perpendicular to township roads which run east–west along the township grid lines.
Western Canada
In western Canada, a range road is a road running on a north–south parallel to a range line.Alberta
Range roads are commonly numbered in increments west from the east range line of a given township. The range roads form the east and west boundaries of the 1 mile × 1 mile square sections 36 of which comprise a township. In many municipal districts, the dash between the range line number and the section line number is eliminated. Where a road is offset from a section line, it is often appended with a letter. This system is useful for finding farmsteads.Range roads are perpendicular to township roads. In Foothills County, the range and township road naming system has been replaced with a more conventional "street/avenue" numbering scheme. Range roads are streets numbered west and east of the Fifth Meridian in increments of 16 streets to the mile. Township roads are avenues numbered on a similar grid to the city of Calgary and extends out to 722nd Avenue. This system causes confusion at the southern boundary of Calgary, as streets in Calgary are numbered east and west of Centre Street, which is some distance west of the Fifth Meridian. Therefore, street numbers change as one crosses Calgary's southern boundary.
Saskatchewan
In Saskatchewan there are both township and range roads. The numbers of the range roads help to establish the location of the roads as they exist with relation to the legal land description survey system. Range roads travel north and south between the meridians. Range roads indicate first the meridian number. In Saskatchewan roads near the Manitoba border begin with 1 as they are west of the prime or first meridian, then the range numbers are west of the second and finally west of the 3rd meridian. There are no roads in Saskatchewan west of the fourth meridian, as the fourth meridian line defines the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The next two digits are the range number, which increments from east to west from a meridian line. The last range number shows how many miles within the range the road is located starting at the easternmost edge of the range and travelling west. As they mark a definite location such as a longitudes and latitudes, the naming convention is the same across Saskatchewan. Township and range roads can be gravel, highway, or municipal paved road. The Dominion Land Survey system designates a township road allowance every two miles apart south to north, and allows for a range road allowance every mile apart east to west.Due to the curvature of the Earth, townships adjacent to major Meridian lines are truncated. There are more townships between meridian lines along the 49th Parallel than there are along the 60th Parallel.