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  2. Texas land survey system - Wikipedia

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    "A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...

  3. State cessions - Wikipedia

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    Map of Texas, illustrating the area under de facto control of the Republic of Texas (in light yellow); the full extent of the Texan claim (light yellow and green); and modern-day borders of the State of Texas. Later in the 19th century, there was one more case of a state ceding some of its land to the federal government.

  4. List of principal and guide meridians and base lines of the ...

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    Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.

  5. Tract index - Wikipedia

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    Only a few states require their recording offices to maintain this type of index. Among these states are Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. In addition, some other states permit recording offices to maintain tract indexes (for example, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio, and Wisconsin).

  6. List of tripoints of U.S. states - Wikipedia

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    South Dakota: True point is marked with a disc in the center of a T-shaped road intersection. [22] A witness monument nearby in the South Dakota corner acknowledges the tri-point being set in 1859. Kansas: Missouri: Oklahoma

  7. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Public lands in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [8] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [9]

  9. Territorial evolution of North America since 1763 - Wikipedia

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    Dakota Territory was split in two, and it was admitted to the US as the 39th state, North Dakota, and 40th state, South Dakota. November 8, 1889. Montana Territory was admitted to the US as the 41st state, Montana. November 11, 1889. Washington Territory was admitted to the US as the 42nd state, Washington. August 12, 1889

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