New towns were laid out on grids before they had inhabitants, and new grids extended across the continent with the railroad.

To this day a vast grid of crumbling paved roads, intended to lay out residential blocks, extends well beyond the developed area of the city.

The national grid in Zambia only extends to some parts of the country.

Its grid extends over 1,200 miles and covers the central and southern parts of the country.

This grid does not extend outside of the modern borders of Somerset County.

This grid also originally extended eastward into the modern borders of Piscataquis County, to the south of Moosehead Lake.

The grid defined by the stone extended the Public Land Survey System and was used as the basis of land claims in the Oregon Territory.

This grid also extends into Penobscot County.

The mined grids of open ground extended from the ranch's buildings like the spokes of a wheel.

The grid extended north and south along the ridge, with many houses to have been built close to the street where the land dropped off sharply.