Jacksonville, Florida

This week we explore the classic summer vacation spot, Jacksonville, Florida. Once known as Wacca Pilatka, according to the Seminole and later a small English settlement named Cow Ford, Jacksonville has grown to be the largest Floridian city by population and the largest continental U.S. city by land area. 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.

Dependent Resurvey from August 5, 1850