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Title Info for : Surveyor General and State Land Office Land Patents 1865-2009 24 vols.
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Surveyor General and State Land Office Land Patents 1865-2009 24 vols.
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When Nevada was granted statehood in 1864, it began receiving grants of federal lands that Congress had been donating to incoming states. The lands were to be sold by the state to finance various activities -- internal improvements (Nevada was able to use this grant for education instead), public schools; public buildings; a prison and a state university.
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Nevada State Land Patents are state conveyance documents created on the initial transfer of land titles from the State government to individuals. Official records of patents for lands were issued by the Nevada Surveyor General or State Land Registrar. The original copy was issued to the individual for filing with the county recorder and recorded in the Secretary of State’s office in one of 24 volumes dating 1865-1995. Each includes name of patentee, description of land granted by patent, patent number, and date. The database is searchable by name of patentee, township and range, and patent number. The official land patent records are now at the Nevada State Archives.
Legal Land Descriptions are described in numbered townships in tiers north and south of the base line and ranges east and west of the principal meridians. Townships are subdivided into thirty-six sections with typical land entries containing 40 to 320 acres. They are described into aliquot parts, i.e., NE¼NE¼ Sec. 10, T. 13 N., R. 8 E., Mount Diablo Meridian, California.
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