Chisholm Cattle Trail

This week the General Land Office team features a survey of Township 12 North, Range 3 West, of the Indian Meridian in Oklahoma. This is one of many plats in the GLO collection that depicts the Chisholm Cattle Trail. Returning visitors may recall our featured Abilene Cattle Trail story which features the cattle drives and their importance in bringing beef to the Northeast after the end of the American Civil War. After a quick recap, we will learn about the namesake of the Chisholm Cattle Trail, Jesse Chisholm. Read more on ArcGIS Story Maps.

The GLO web site provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than 12 million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present.
 
The site also hosts images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records, and is the most visited website in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.