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General Land Office (2008 words) |
 | The maps of historic vegetation on this website, reconstructed from General Land Office survey records, are a reliable depiction of the range of forest composition in the northern Lake States over a long time period, with the exception of areas inside the boundaries of fire-susceptible ecosystems. |
| GLO records have been used for many years to provide information on tree species composition, diameter size distribution, and disturbance patches in the pre-European settlement forests of the Lake States (Cottam 1949, Stearns 1949, Bourdo 1956, 1983, Cottam and Curtis 1956, Curtis 1959, Loucks 1983, Whitney 1986, 1987, Frelich 1995). |
| Maps generated from GLO data are based on a single measurement of forest conditions during the early to mid-nineteenth century. |
| RG 952.000 - U.S. General Land Office Records for Illinois (13070 words) |
| The determination of which lands fell under the provisions of the act was complicated and the land district officers served as mediators in disputed claims. |
| In 1820 the land north of the baseline for the second and third principal meridians became part of the two new land offices established at Palestine and Vandalia. |
| Certificates filed at land office state that purchaser had filed a relinquishment on specified tracts and that any payments made on those relinquished tracts should be applied toward the purchase of another tract or tracts. |
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