Back then, the east-west difference was 98.24 miles compared to a north-south difference of 90.90 miles, or 7.34 miles longer from east to west than north to south.

Answer Man: I noticed a street sign on Prince Lane marking where North Prince Lane and South Prince Lane divide. The sign is in the middle of the block (not at an intersection) between two houses.

Confusingly, early Chinese maps seem to buck this trend. But, Brotton, says, even though they did have compasses at the time, that isn’t the reason that they placed north at the top.

My new ADC street atlas for Lancaster County (by the Kappa Map Group, and not as good as the old atlases) shows that Lancaster’s street grid is not true north-south-east-west. It is skewed to ...

The South Atlantic division contains Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, as well as Washington, DC. East South Central stretches ...