Grass Valley, California

This week the General Land Office team takes us back to the gold rush days with a visit to Grass Valley, California.

The name Grass Valley came about when a settler found his cattle grazing in a ‘grassy valley’ away from camp. Learn more with our story map.

The GLO web site provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than 12 million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present.

The site also hosts images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records, and is the most visited website in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.