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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.
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023) [1].On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.
It is only 0.4 miles (0.6 km) from the International Date Line and about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) from the Russian island of Big Diomede. According to the United States Census Bureau, the island has a total area of 2.8 sq mi (7.3 km 2), all of it land. On the western shore of the island is the village of Diomede, also known as IĊaliq. The highest ...
Over the 1990–2018 time period, the largest decline in federal acreage was in Alaska (a decrease of 9.4%, or 23.0 million acres (0.093 million km 2)) and in the 11 contiguous states of the West (a 3% decrease in federal land, or 10.7 million acres (0.043 million km 2)).
A measure making all unappropriated land available for homesteading until a total of 30,000,000 acres were transferred [27] Passed [31] 70,409 (55.92%) 55,511 (44.08%) Proposition 5 A measure requiring all aluminum drink containers sold in major municipalities have a refund value of at least ten cents [27] Failed [31] 49,882 (39.84%) 75,337 (60 ...
Just about 1.5 miles away from the mainland, Tanera Mòr spans about 1.2 miles wide and 1.6 miles long.
Though its land area is huge, about 40% of the Tongass is composed of wetlands, snow, ice, rock, and non-forest vegetation, while the remaining 10 million acres (40,000 km 2) are forested. About 5 million acres (20,000 km 2) are considered "productive old-growth", and 4,500,000 acres (18,000 km 2) of those are preserved as wilderness areas. [20]
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [2]The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium a specified property in Anchorage, Alaska, for use in connection with health and related programs.