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2. How To Get Free Land in the US in 2023 - AOL

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   Where To Get Free Land in 2023. A number of towns in the Midwest and elsewhere in the U.S. offer free land, albeit with strict requirements about how you can use it. Local governments in the ...

3. Railroad land grants in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The land rush climaxed in the 1870s in Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, as the population more than doubled from 1.0 million in 1870 to 2.4 million in 1880, while the number of farms tripled from 99,000 to 302,000, and the improved acreage quintupled from 5.0 million acres to 24.6 million. [16]

4. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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   The Donation Land Claim Act allowed settlers to claim land in the Oregon Territory, then including the modern states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and parts of Wyoming. The Oregon Donation Land Claim Act was passed in 1850 and allowed white settlers to claim 320 acres or 640 to married couples between 1850 and 1855 when the act was repealed.

5. Williamson Act - Wikipedia

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   The motivation for the Williamson Act is to promote voluntary land conservation, particularly farmland conservation. In 2010, legislation was passed by the California State Senate and State Assembly and sent to the governor to be signed in the form of Senate Bill 1142. The bill was created to provide a relief stream of funding for the ...

6. Five places where land is free - AOL

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   In the spirit of settling the wild, wild West, some communities are giving away free land lots. What's the catch? You have to agree to build a house (or park a mobile home) and live in it. For the ...

7. US government must return land it took and never developed to ...

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   The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska will soon get back about 1,600 acres (647 hectares) of land the federal government took more than 50 years ago and never developed. A new law will require the U.S ...

8. Black land loss in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 2002, a USDA Report showed that black people owned less than 1% of the rural land in the United States and the total value of all of that land together is only 14 billion dollars, out of a total land value of more than 1.2 trillion dollars, while the total land that white people owned 96% of rural land, bringing their land's joint worth to ...

9. Land banking - Wikipedia

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   Blighted land in Philadelphia. Land banking is the practice of aggregating parcels of land for future sale or development.. While in many countries land banking may refer to various private real estate investment schemes, in the United States it refers to the establishment of quasi-governmental county or municipal authorities tasked with managing an inventory of surplus land.