The Golden Spike
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month begins this week and the General Land Office is highlighting a record that showcases an accomplishment of an Asian population in America. This week's record is a plat that displays Township 10 North Range 3 West of the Salt Lake Meridian. This is the location of the Golden Spike, which is now a historical park in Utah. Read more on ArcGIS Story Maps.
The GLO website 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.
The Golden Spike was driven into the ground to mark the link between the East and West
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