Isle Royale National Park

This week's GLO Record of the week for January 3, 2022 takes you to the Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. Isle Royale National Park sits inside Lake Superior right along the U.S.- Canadian Border. Despite being the least visited national park in the United States, it has a fascinating history and is a scientifically significant area. 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.

Isle Royale National Park Survey Plat
This survey from 1847 covers over 15000 acres of what would become Isle Royale National Park.

 

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