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  2. Oregon Department of State Lands - Wikipedia

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    Upon Oregon's admission to the union, the federal government ceded to the state two sections of each township to generate revenues for a Common School Fund, a trust fund for support and maintenance of public schools. 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) had previously been allowed to Oregon by an 1841 act of Congress, and 5% of all proceeds from the sale ...

  3. Land use in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    October 27, 1868: Corvallis College (now Oregon State University) was designated Oregon's first and only Land Grant College under the federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. 1869: Oregon and California Railroad (O&C) receives land grant from US government with mandate to sell to settlers at $2.50/acre [2] 1878: Timber and Stone Act

  4. Oregon Country - Wikipedia

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    Oregon Country was the American name, while the British used Columbia District for the region. [1] British and French Canadian fur traders had entered Oregon Country prior to 1810 before the arrival of American settlers from the mid-1830s onwards, which led to the foundation of the Provisional Government of Oregon.

  5. Property tax limits, state-owned land: What's to blame for ...

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    Staff estimated state-owned property accounted for 8% of land within Salem's city limits. If taxed, those properties would generate $7.25 million a year. Oregon voters placed limits on property taxes

  6. Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands - Wikipedia

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    The land was to be distributed by the state of Oregon in 12,800-acre (5,200 ha) land grants for each mile of track completed. [4] [5] Two companies, both of which named themselves the Oregon Central Railroad, began a competition to build the railroad, one on the west side of the Willamette River and one on the east side.

  7. Hood River County, Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Sixty percent, or 209,385 acres (84,735 ha), of the county is federal land managed by the Mount Hood National Forest. [8] Another 31,000 acres (13,000 ha), or 8.8 percent, is forestland owned and managed by Hood River County. [9] The State of Oregon owns 3,894 acres (1,576 ha) within the county. [10]

  8. List of Oregon state forests - Wikipedia

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    Former state forests include: Adair Tract State Forest aka Paul M. Dunn Research Forest, renamed and jointly administered as the McDonald-Dunn Forest by Oregon State University [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] George T. Gerlinger State Experimental Forest, administered by the Oregon Department of Forestry as part of its West Oregon District [ 6 ]

  9. List of regions of Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Western Oregon: West of the Cascades, Lane County and north Portland, Salem, Eugene: 3,010,021 (2015 est.) [1] Minimal definition. Sometimes includes Southern Oregon. Area on the map highlighted in blue. Applegate Valley: Southwestern Jackson and eastern Josephine counties along the Applegate River: Applegate, Ruch: Not available Cascade Range ...