Ohio: 88 counties

The first testing ground for what shapes and guides our physical imprint on the ground in the United States.  Here different land ordinances were tested, eventually leading to the square mile parcel which can be seen in much of the original Northwest Territory and throughout the mid and western U.S.  Natural land forms now compete against an orthogonal matrix, an imaginary and political matrix, that now expresses itself physically.  Through fence rows, agriculture fields, highways, nearly everything works from the grid.