General Land Office Adds Colorado, Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas Master Title and Use Plats to Searchable Web
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Most of the Master Title and Use Plats for the States of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota have just been made available on the Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States (BLM-ES) General Land Office (GLO) Records Web Site. Title companies, historians, genealogists, schools, and other interested people can now obtain free data and images capturing Land Title and Land Use information at www.glorecords.blm.gov.These records are a graphical representation of Federal ownership, use authorization, agency jurisdiction, and rights reserved to the Federal government on private land within a township. They will continually be updated as land title and land use changes. For convenience of ease, web site viewers can query by township and range to receive the exact location of where the lands are located.The Master Title and Use Plats can be used in conjunction with the Patents, Survey Plats and Field Notes already available from the GLO Records Web Site for a better understanding of the Federal government rights and interests."The BLM-ES is constantly creating new and improved ways to provide public access to our information that is simple and straight forward," said Juan Palma, BLM-ES State Director. "No longer will the public have to go to our State Offices to view these important documents. Now they can see them from the comfort of their own homes via the computer. Access from anywhere at any time to these Master Title and Use Plats is now available and opens doors to a new audience of public users," said Palma.As of June 8, 2009, the GLO web site has over 10,000 Master Title Plats for the States of Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, nearly 5,500 Master Title Plats for the State of Idaho, and more than 14,000 Master Title Plats for the State of Colorado. In addition for the State of Colorado, each Master Title Plat online has corresponding Historical Indices, which provides history of the land status by identifying all past and present actions that affect title to Federal lands and is recorded in chronological order.The GLO Records Web site is continuously expanding its archives to provide the public with more records in a user friendly environment. Additional States and documents will be added to the GLO Web Site as the data and images become available.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states, including Alaska, on behalf of the American people. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.