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2. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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   The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.

3. Kinkaid Act - Wikipedia

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   Western Nebraska counties to which the Kinkaid Act applied. The Kinkaid Act of 1904 (ch. 1801, 33 Stat. 547, Apr. 28, 1904, 43 U.S.C. § 224) is a U.S. statute that amended the 1862 Homestead Act so that one section (1 mi 2, 2.6 km 2, 640 acres) of public domain land could be acquired free of charge, apart from a modest filing fee.

4. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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   The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...

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   New year, same old real estate market: The high mortgage rates, scarce inventory and dismal affordability that have plagued housing look set to linger. NBC Universal 25 days ago The housing market ...

6. Railroad land grants in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The land rush climaxed in the 1870s in Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, as the population more than doubled from 1.0 million in 1870 to 2.4 million in 1880, while the number of farms tripled from 99,000 to 302,000, and the improved acreage quintupled from 5.0 million acres to 24.6 million. [16]

7. Nine Mile Prairie - Wikipedia

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   Nine-Mile Prairie (named for its location 5 miles (8.0 km) west and 4 miles (6.4 km) north of downtown Lincoln) is a 230-acre (0.93 km 2) tract of conserved tallgrass prairie in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States. Except for one small portion of it that was farmed as recently as the 1950s, Nine-Mile Prairie has never been plowed (some of ...

8. Lancaster County, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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   Lancaster County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 322,608, [1] making it the second-most populous county in Nebraska. Its county seat is Lincoln, [2] the state capital. The county was created in 1859. Lancaster County is part of the Lincoln, NE Metropolitan Statistical Area.

9. State Trust Lands - Wikipedia

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   The survey system divided public land into 36 one-square mile sections. See General Land Ordinance of 1785.. The General Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance established and systematized the policies that governed the disposal of the public domain to settlers and the creation of new states.