Government Owned Land Near You?
October 20, 2011, Submitted by: Ken TweetThe United States Federal Government owns nearly 650 million acres of land – almost 30 percent of the land area of the country. Federally-owned and managed public lands include National Parks, National Forests, and National Wildlife Refuges.
I have always enjoyed maps. For some unknown reason, I just like finding new maps and looking at them. Given the Internet today, there is a countless availability of detailed maps focused on an endless variety of purposes.
I recently came across this map which shows all the government owned land in the United States, much of which is in the West. It may be helpful or interesting to know where this land is while considering a new location or land purchase.
The following map shows the location of land managed by the various governmental departments… Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Defense, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, National Park Service, TVA, and ‘other’ agencies.
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You may be interested to see a map of each individual State and where the government owned land is within each State.
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts
Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska NevadaNew Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
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Ken Said:
“I have always enjoyed maps. For some unknown reason, I just like finding new maps and looking at them. Given the Internet today, there is a countless availability of detailed maps focused on an endless variety of purposes.”
That sounds like me. I could look at a map of anything. Unfortunately, I haven’t found that Treasure Map to the Chest of Gold yet. But I always felt like I had something of a sixth sense for driving and hardly getting lost.
I’m glad I’m not the only one
There are maps at garage sales, used book stores, libraries having their own sales, people have no real interest in maps anymore, SAD! Ken, you think you like maps, I have loved maps since I was about 5 years, I can look at a map and find so much. Ken, you are not the only one by any means that gains much from maps, though you and a select people like myself seem like a dying breed.
The above map I find interesting is how little is government land in Texas, while just west to New Mexico is heavily government. Probably because New Mexico came into the union more than a half of a century later. When you add maps to certain articles it really gives more to the substance of what is trying to be put over. The understanding of reading maps should be a requirement that all college students must take to graduate. Something should also be taught in high school that teaches geography with understanding maps. There are people that actually cannot find their homes on a globe or in an atlas, now that is a triple
sad faces.