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Alameda Land Grant - (granted 1710, confirmed 1892, original size 89,346 acres (361.57 km 2) [31] Situated on the west bank of the Rio Grande and presently a part of Albuquerque and Rio Rancho, the Alameda Grant was given to Francisco Montes Vigil, who sold the land two years later to Captain Juan Gonzales of the Spanish Army.
From 1692 to 1846, the Spanish and Mexican governments awarded about 300 land grants to individuals, communities, and Pueblo villages in New Mexico and Colorado. After its conquest of New Mexico in the Mexican-American War, the U.S. and New Mexican governments adjudicated and "confirmed" (recognized the validity of) 154 of the grants in a long, slow, and corrupt legal process.
The Mora Land Grant was a 827,621 acres (3,349.26 km 2) (1,293 square miles) [1] Mexican land grant mostly in Mora County, New Mexico.The grant land extended from the Great Plains west of the town of Wagon Mound for about 40 miles (64 km) west to the crest of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with elevations ranging from about 6,500 ft (2,000 m) on the eastern border to 12,835 ft (3,912 m) at ...
Bank buildings in New Mexico (1 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 23 December 2023, at 23:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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.
Grant County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. At the 2020 census, the population was 28,185. [1] Its county seat is Silver City. [2] The county was founded in 1868 and named for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. [3] Grant County comprises the Silver City, NM, Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is part ...
The Maxwell Land Grant, also known as the Beaubien-Miranda Land Grant, was a 1,714,765-acre (6,939.41 km 2) Mexican land grant in Colfax County, New Mexico, and part of adjoining Las Animas County, Colorado. This 1841 land grant was one of the largest contiguous private landholdings in the history of the United States. The New Mexico ...
Riverside is an unincorporated community in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. [1] [2] It lies on the left (east) bank of the Gila River and on both sides of U.S. Route 180 in southwestern New Mexico, 2.6 miles (4.2 km) by road south of Cliff. [3]