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General Land Office (White Pigeon, Michigan) Greensburg Land Office; H. Holland Land Office; L. La Farge Land Office; Land Office (Morristown, New York) O. Ohio ...
Location of Vermilion Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Texas General Land Office (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "State public land agencies in the United States" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Vermilion County is a county in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois, between the Indiana border and Champaign County. It was established in 1826 and was the 45th of Illinois' 102 counties. It was established in 1826 and was the 45th of Illinois' 102 counties.
• Land: 37.1 sq mi (96.2 km 2) • Water: ... It is the only Vermillion Township statewide, although there is a Vermilion Township in Erie County.
The first of 362 land offices was opened at Steubenville, Ohio, on July 2, 1800; the last at Newcastle, Wyoming, on March 1, 1920. The peak year for land offices was 1890, with 123 in operation. The subsequent closing of the public domain gradually reduced the number of land offices, until, in 1933, only 25 offices remained.
The United States General Land Office was an independent agency of the United States government responsible for public domain lands in the United States. It was created in 1812, and it merged with the United States Grazing Service in 1946 to become the Bureau of Land Management .
The position was created in the Land Act of 1796 [1] to survey lands ceded by Native Americans northwest of the Ohio River and above the mouth of the Kentucky River. This act, and those that followed evolved into the Public Land Survey System. Rufus Putnam was appointed to the office in 1797, and held it until 1803. His office was in Marietta. [2]