Suggestions to homesteaders and persons desiring to make homestead entries

• Main Author: United States. General Land Office
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oregon Institute of Technology. Library 1926
• Subjects: Homestead law > United States; Public lands > United States; Alabama; Anchorage; Bismarck; Fairbanks; Great Falls; Homestead; Nome; Alaska
• Online Access: http://digitallib.oit.edu/cdm/ref/collection/kwl/id/12843

Cover title; At head of title: Department of the Interior, General Land Office CIRCULAR NO. 541 DEPARTMENT OF THE I- RIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE SUGGESTIONS TO HOMESTEADERS AND PERSONS DESIRING TO MAKE ~. HOMESTEAD ENTRIES REVISED JULY 16, 1926 WASHINGTON QOWRNMlNT PRINTING OPFICB 1926 LIST OF UNITED STATES LAND OFFICES. The General Land Office does not issue maps showing the location of vacant public land subject to entry. This information can be reliably obtained only from the records of the various United States district land offices, which are located as follows: ALABAMA: Montgomery. ALASKA: Anchorage, Fairbanks. Nome. ARIZONA: Phoenix. ARKANSA: S Little Rock. CALIFORNI: A Los Angeles. Sacramento. San Francisco. COLORAD- Contd. Glenwood Springs Pueblo. ~ O R I D A: Gainesville. IDAH: O Blackfoot. Boise. Coeur d'Alene. LOUISIANA : Baton Rouge. MINNESOTA: Cass Lake. NEREASKA: I. Alliance. NEVAD: A Carson City. Elko. NEW MEXICO: Las Cruces. Santa Fe. NORTH DAKOTA: Bismarck. OKLAHOM: A Guthrie. OREQON: OREQON- COI~. ! The Dalles. Vale. SOUTHD AKOTA: Pierre. Rapid City. UTAE : Salt Lake City. Vernal. WASHINGTO: N Seattle. Spokane. WYOMIN: G Buffalo. Visalia. MONTAN: A Lakeview. Cheyenne. COLORAD: O Billings. Portland. Evanston. Denver. Great Falls. . Roseburg. . Lander. There are no public lands in the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, and none is known to this office remaining undisposed of in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Missouri, and Ohio. Small areas remain in the States of Kansas, Michi-gan, Mississippi, and Wisconsin, in widely scattered tracts, and no descriptive lists thereof are available. Entry of these lands must be made at the General Land Office, there being no district offices in the States named. No specific descriptions of the character of the land, climate, water, or timber can be given by the General Land Office. Unoccupied public lands, subject to settlement and entry, are to be found in all the States west of the Mississippi River except Iowa and Texas. There is also vacant public ...