Range roads indicate firstly the meridian number. Range roads travel in a north and south direction between the meridians parallel to the latitudinal lines.

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. In Saskatchewan there are both township and range roads. Therefore, street numbers change as one crosses Calgary's southern boundary. This system causes confusion at the southern boundary of the City of Calgary as streets in Calgary are numbered east and west of Centre Street, which is some distance west of the Fifth Meridian. Township Roads are avenues numbered on a similar grid to the city of Calgary (the boundary lies between 190th and 220th Avenue) and extends out to 722nd Avenue. Range roads are streets numbered west and east of the Fifth Meridian (Meridian Street) in increments of 16 streets to the mile. 31, the range and township road naming system has been replaced with a more conventional 'street/avenue' numbering scheme. In the Municipal District of Foothills No. Range roads are perpendicular to township roads (abbreviated TWP. This system is useful for finding farmsteads (assuming one knows the legal address of the parcel). Where a township road offset from a section line, it is often appended with a letter (Range Road 11-1A is just west of the first section line west of Range line 11). In many counties, the dash between the range line number and the section line number is eliminated (Range Road 15-1 (151) might be called 'Range Road one-fifty-one').

Range Road 12-2 would be between the second and third sections west of Range line 12, Range Road 6-0 is on Range line 6). The range roads form the east and west boundaries (known as Section Lines) of the 1 mile x 1 mile square sections - 36 of which comprise a township (e.g.

Range roads are commonly numbered in one-mile (1.6-km) increments west from the east range line of a given township. RD.') is a road running on a north-south parallel to a range line (a line denoting the east and west boundaries of a 6-mile (9.7 km) x 6-mile (9.7 km) legal township in the Dominion Land Survey and Alberta Township land surveying systems). In western Canada (especially rural areas in most counties and municipal districts in Alberta), a range road (abbreviated 'RGE.

Range and township definition