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The Western United States has been populated by Native Americans since at least 11,000 years ago, when the first Paleo-Indians arrived. Pre-Columbian trade routes to kingdoms and empires such as the Mound Builders existed in places such as Yellowstone National Park since around 1000 AD.
1882 hand-colored map depicting the western half of the continental United States. This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time ...
1983 UDOT map moabdave (talk · contribs) - I have several "gas station" maps of western US states from the early 1980s 2002-2004 AAA Nevada and Utah - Presidentman ( talk · contribs ) 2005 UDOT state map - Rschen7754 ( talk · contribs )
This map has been described as showing U.S. Manifest Destiny; a copy of the map was offered for sale in 2016 for $65,000. Map making at that time was important for both Mexico and the United States. [131] The Greenwich prime meridian became the international standard reference for cartographers in 1884.
Additional grants were made under the Pacific Railway Acts between 1862 and 1871, when they were stopped because of public opposition. In total, 79 grants were made, totaling 200,000,000 acres (810,000 km 2 ), later reduced to 131,000,000 acres (530,000 km 2 ).
Guest column: The completion of MAPS 3, a $777 million capital improvement initiative, marks a significant milestone in Oklahoma City's history. MAPS 3 was only ideas 15 years ago. Now, it's ...
The School Lands are part of the Ohio Lands, [18] comprising land grants in Ohio from the United States federal government for public schools. According to the Official Ohio Lands Book , [ 18 ] "by 1920, 73,155,075 acres of public land had been given by the federal government to the public land states in support of public schooling."
Sanborn held a monopoly over fire insurance maps for the majority of the 20th century, but the business declined as US insurance companies stopped using maps for underwriting in the 1960s. The last Sanborn fire maps were published on microfilm in 1977, but old Sanborn maps remain useful for historical research into urban geography. The license ...