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This week's Record of the Week is a map of survey approved on July 26, 1859, of Pueblo de Santa Clara. As noted in the upper right corner of the document, on December 22, 1858, U.S. Congress approved and recognized land claims by the people of Pueblo de Santa Clara. This approval made Santa Clara Pueblo one of the first Pueblos to have land claims recognized by Congress. Read more on ArcGIS Story Maps.
The GLO website 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 one of the most visited websites in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.