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Northwestern North America: December 10, 1903 Land along southern Guantánamo Bay was leased in perpetuity from Cuba for use as a naval base; [336] the treaty took effect February 23, 1903, and the formal handover occurred on this date. [337] no change to map: May 4, 1904 The United States took ownership of the Panama Canal Zone.
A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [8] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [9]
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the broad powers of the federal government to deal with federal lands, for example having unanimously held in Kleppe v. New Mexico [7] that "the complete power that Congress has over federal lands under this clause necessarily includes the power to regulate and protect wildlife living there, state law notwithstanding."
In 1812, Congress established the United States General Land Office as part of the Department of the Treasury to oversee the disposition of these federal lands. [32] By the early 1800s, promised bounty land claims were finally fulfilled. [35] In the 19th century, other bounty land and homestead laws were enacted to dispose of federal land.
Real estate mogul and owner of the Los Angeles Rams Stan Kroenke owns 1.6 million acres of land in the United States, including a 124,000-acre ranch in Montana and additional land in Wyoming.
A cadastral map is a map that shows the boundaries and ownership of land parcels. Some cadastral maps show additional details, such as survey district names, unique identifying numbers for parcels, certificate of title numbers, positions of existing structures, section or lot numbers and their respective areas, adjoining and adjacent street ...
He also runs the company Mapster, which helps create maps for a wide variety of uses. Native-Land started in early 2015 “during a time of a lot of resource development projects in British ...
A National Atlas map from 2002 National Atlas map (from circa 2005) depicting historical United States territorial acquisitions. The National Atlas of the United States was an atlas published by the United States Department of the Interior from 1874 to 1997. Older editions were printed, but the most recent edition was available online.