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Congress Lands in Ohio. The Congress Lands was a group of land tracts in Ohio that made land available for sale to members of the general public through land offices in various cities, and through the United States General Land Office. It consisted of three groups of surveys: [1] Ohio River Base Congress Lands East of Scioto River
The Public Land Survey System was not the first to define and implement a survey grid. A number of similar systems were established, often using terms like section and township but not necessarily in the same way. For example, the lands of the Holland Purchase in western New York were surveyed into a township grid before the PLSS was established.
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This Bureau of Land Management map depicts the public domain lands surveyed and platted under the auspices of the GLO to facilitate the sale of those lands.. The GLO oversaw the surveying, platting, and sale of the public lands in the Western United States and administered the Homestead Act [2] and the Preemption Act in disposal of public lands.
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A land patent for a 39.44-acre (15.96 ha) land parcel in present-day Monroe County, Ohio, and within the Seven Ranges land tract. The parcel was sold by the Marietta Land Office in Marietta, Ohio, in 1834. The land patent specifies any usage restrictions, such as oil and mineral rights, roadways, ditches, and canals, that apply to the land.
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