El Malpais National Monument

El Malpais National Monument was established on New Year's Eve in 1987. In Spanish, El Malpais translates to "The Badlands," fitting for the area with its rugged, difficult-to-navigate lava flows. Our record for this week is the original survey plat for Township 8 North Range 11 West of the New Mexico Principal Meridian. Read more in 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 one of the most visited websites in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.