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The Iowa tribe settled for eighty-acre allotments for each of its 86 members and sold the remaining 221,528 acres (896.49 km 2) as "surplus" at less than $0.28 per acre. The Sac and Fox agreed to accept 160 acres per member and sold 391,189 acres (1,583.09 km 2) at $1.25 per acre. The Citizen Band Potawatomi agreed with the 160-acres per member ...
Sharon Township has an area of approximately 36 square miles (93 km 2), and contains 36 sections of 640 acres (2.6 km 2) each. There are several small rivers in Sharon Township, including Dirty Face Creek, Picayune Creek and Old Man's Creek. The major roads are Highway 1, Sharon Center Road (F62) and 500th St. (the "Frytown Road").
One of the reasons for creating sections of 640 acres (260 ha) was the ease of dividing into halves and quarters while still maintaining a whole number of acres. A section can be halved seven times in this way, down to a 5-acre (2 ha) parcel, or half of a quarter-quarter-quarter section—an easily surveyed 50-square-chain (2 ha) area. This ...
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. The frantic pace of public land sales in the 19th century American West led to the idiomatic expression "land-office business", meaning a thriving or high ...
Randalia, a northeast Iowa town of about 50 residents, will join Fayette County's other unincorporated villages in a process known as discontinuance.
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Iowa, arranged in alphabetical order. This list contains a number of historical communities which no longer exist, and also includes a number of disincorporated cities.