This would be a huge PITA. See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System And

This would be a huge PITA. See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System And in particular checkout the section titled: Survey design and execution. Now keep in mind errors happened a lot over large distances with difficult terrain and lines got skewed. But defining a chunk of land as the "Southwest quarter of the Northeast quarter", and then breaking it down from there by physical corners set in the ground is pretty sensical even when things get skewed. With hexagons, you COULD do the same thing, but I don't think the errors would come out so well. You'd have to be more careful to tie to more points/lines in order to not accidentally create conflicting definitions. It sounds like a nightmare honestly.