General Land Office Record of the Week

Our record this week is the original survey plat for Township 2 South 5 West of the Mount Diablo Principal Meridian. Approved April 19, 1864...

This week we take a look at the historic Salmon River in Idaho, which flows through such treacherous conditions that a stretch of it has...

This week's interesting General Land Office record features a land patent that belonged to Adeline Dalton, who was the mother of the ever so notorious...

This week’s record is a patent issued in 1800, but tells a story that started years before. John Cleves Symmes, born in 1742, became a...

On March 27, 1980, a series of phreatic eruptions burst open the peak of Mount St. Helens located in Skamania County, Washington. The eventual major...