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Title

Map of the Public Lands States and Territories, 1864.

Creator

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Johnson's Bibliographic Reference

1864-76

Source Document Title

Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress : Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1864.

Creation Date

1864

Description

Map constructed from the Public Surveys and other official sources in the General Land Office, drawn by J.H. Hawes, Principal Draughtsman, T. Franks, Assistant.

Public lands in the states are overlain with the Public Land Survey System grid which divides lands into 6-mile square townships, ranges, and sections. In surveying the Public Lands the U.S. Bureau of Land Management surveyed 1.8 billion acres.