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  2. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    Federal land is concentrated in the Western United States. Nationwide, the federal government owns 27.4% of all land area. There are significant variations regionally; the federal government owns 61.3% of the land area in Alaska, 46.4% of the land area in the 11 contiguous Western states; and 4

  3. Bureau of Land Management - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands.Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the BLM oversees more than 247.3 million acres (1,001,000 km 2) of land, or one-eighth of the United States's total landmass.

  4. Public lands in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 public domain. The federal government owns 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States.

  5. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    The government wished both to distribute land to Revolutionary War soldiers in reward for their services and to sell land as a way of raising money for the nation. Before this could happen, the land needed to be surveyed. [2] The Land Ordinance of 1785 marks the beginning of the Public Land Survey System.

  6. List of regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.

  7. Utah lawsuit challenges federal control of a third of its land

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    The unappropriated lands the state is seeking to manage are 18.5 million acres (7.5 million hectares) controlled by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, or 34% of the land in Utah, the state said ...