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  2. United States territorial acquisitions table - Wikipedia

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    Original territory of the Thirteen States (western lands, roughly between the Mississippi River and Appalachian Mountains, were claimed but not administered by the states and were all ceded to the federal government or new states by 1802) 1783: 892,135: 2,310,619----- Annexation of the Vermont Republic: 1791: 9,616: 24,905----- Louisiana ...

  3. Roosevelt Reservation - Wikipedia

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    The Roosevelt Reservation is the 60-foot (18 m)-wide strip of land owned by the United States Federal Government along the United States side of the United States–Mexico Border in three of the four border states. Federal and tribal lands make up 632 miles (1,017 km), or approximately 33 percent, of the nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) total.

  4. Public lands in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The US Forest Service alone manages 193 million acres (780,000 km²) nationwide, or roughly 8% of the total land area in the United States. [2] In the United States, governmental entities at all levels- including townships, cities, counties, states, and the federal government- all manage land which are referred to as either public lands or the ...

  5. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    The fifth largest federal landowner is the United States Department of Defense, which owns, leases, or possessed 26.1 million acres (0.106 million km 2) worldwide, of which 8.8 million acres (0.036 million km 2) are located in the United States (this figure excluded United States Army Corps of Engineers land). DoD thus administers approximately ...

  6. Texas General Land Office - Wikipedia

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    When the State of Texas was annexed into the United States in 1845, it kept control of all of its public lands from its time as a sovereign state. [8] As a result, Texas is the only public land state in the US to control all of its own public lands; [ 7 ] all federal lands in Texas were acquired by purchase (e.g. military bases ), donation (e.g ...

  7. Public land - Wikipedia

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    Map of all federally owned land in the United States. Most of the public land managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management is in the Western states. Public lands account for 25 to 75 percent of the total land area in these states. [2] The US Forest Service alone manages 193 million acres (780,000 km²) nationwide, or roughly 8 ...

  8. U.S. territorial sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    All territory under the control of the federal government is considered part of the "United States" for purposes of law. [3] From 1901 to 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court in a series of opinions known as the Insular Cases held that the Constitution extended ex proprio vigore to the territories.

  9. Texas - Wikipedia

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    Largest in Texas by size and passengers served, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is the second-largest by area in the United States, and fourth in the world with 18,076 acres (73.15 km 2). [314] In traffic, DFW airport is the busiest in the state, the fourth busiest in the United States, [315] and sixth worldwide. [316]