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Nevada. Nevada is 91.9% federal lands - 101, 611 sq miles worth. Even though much larger, California has less federal land (46.9% or 76, 778 sq. miles. Compare to 29.6% of all land in the US being owned by the federal government.
About 48 percent of the Wyoming land is owned by the Federal government. In Utah 70 percent of all the land is owned and managed by the Federal or the statee government.
According to the figures I found, 48.1 percent of the land in AZ belongs to the Federal Government. 15 percent is privately owned land.
More than four fifths of Nevada's land is administered by the U.S. military or other divisions of the federal government. Most of Nevada's land is desert.
Public land is owned by the government. The people have elected a government to represent their interests. Public land is owned and administered by local, state and federal governments. See related questions.
About 27% of the United States is considered public land, owned by the federal government and managed by agencies like the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and U.S. Forest Service. This land includes national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other protected areas for public use and enjoyment.
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Approximately 75% of land in California is privately owned, with the remaining 25% consisting of public land owned by the state or federal government.
Public land is land owned by the state or federal government, and includes such things as national parks.
Unless the purchase involves buying land OWNED by the federal government, it would most likely be a state jurisdiction case.
Land within the 50 states is owned by several million different people and businesses, along with land that is owned by the State governments, and by agencies of the Federal government.
Before the arrival of Brigham Young and the Mormons, the Paiute, Shoshone, and Ute.