Virginia City, Montana

This week's Record of the Week comes to us from May 1, 1869 and depicts Virginia City, Montana. Once a booming mining town and now a prominent tourist attraction, Virginia City has a rich history that is reflective of many small towns in the early American west. Read more about this ArcGIS StoryMaps. 

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.