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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 ...
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
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.
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
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.
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]
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 ]
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 ...