Tag: Bureau of Land Management

Understanding BLM Administrative Areas

We have added a new way to browse and explore patents: by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Administrative Area. To give context to this new feature, we wrote this handy explanation. Summary Nearly a quarter of a billion acres – about one-eighth of the landmass of the USA – is administered by the BLM. These public lands & resources contributed…

Understanding Location Data

Claims handled by the Bureau of Land Management are not mapped by latitude and longitude, as many maps now use.  Instead, many of these claims harken back to an older form of surveying called the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a  measurement system that may seem confusing to the uninitiated, but was a great step forward in the time that it…

Welcome!

We are excited to have launched The Land Patents! There are many public land patents across the US. Yet, few people are able to discover the “who,” “what,” and “where” of public land patents. While this is a matter of public record, we aim to make it a matter of a simple search to answer all these questions and more!…