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Welcome to the Bureau of Land Management(BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation web site. We provide live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1820 and the present. We also have images related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx

This site is going to eat up a vast amount of my time!

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You will never get caught up Steve.  :lol:

 

There are more than 5 million patents there and that's just the tip of the iceberg! :o

 

We spend a lot of time with the Land Status section. The Master Title Plats, Supplements and CDI index are the key to finding the status of any Federal managed lands.

 

It's truly a world beyond. A second home for some of us!

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One of the more interesting uses of the GLO site patents records is to look up patents (private land) that may be blocking access to good hunting land beyond. If the patent survey shows public access through the patent the owners of the patent do not have exclusive use of the road. The public access is a part of the patent grant.

 

Court decisions in the past have ordered patent owners to provide public access. Usually this is done by ordering gates and obstacles to be removed but in some cases simply leaving the gate unlocked or allowing the passerby a key or lock combination will suffice.

 

Some of those old railroad patent blocks come to mind as a good study subject in that regard. :D

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