General Land Office Records

General Land Office Record of the Week

Each week, the Bureau of Land Management releases a story map featuring unique records from the General Land Office records collection.

Record of the week shortlist map

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...