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corner using the official survey records of the GLO and BLM on a township basis. The GCDB data are available for download by the public in GIS shapefile format from the GeoCommunicator Land Survey
Information System website. The GCDB coordinates are also available to the public in the GCDB flat file
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The BLM makes images of GLO records (federal land patents, survey plats and field notes, land status records, and tract books) issued between 1787 and present publicly available on its website. Since 1990, the BLM's
Geographic Coordinates Database (GCDB) program has endeavored to generate coordinate
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Withdrawal Act of 1910, as well as other custodial duties. Thus, beginning around 1900, the GLO gained a focus for conservation of renewable public resources, as well as for their exploitation.
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381:Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey
260:On July 16, 1946, the GLO was merged with the
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248:for livestock raised on public lands, and
305:Example of a portion of an 1838 GLO map,
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630:United States Department of the Interior
224:to withdraw timber lands from disposal.
112:United States Department of the Treasury
815:Government agencies established in 1812
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137:(established in 1934) to become the
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262:United States Grazing Service
216:The GLO was placed under the
135:United States Grazing Service
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391:National Irrigation Congress
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169:The GLO oversaw the
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124:Northwest Territory
96:General Land Office
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660:Laura Daniel-Davis
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