Secretary of Interior
Land grants
A law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian mountains.
According to statistics, the Federal Government owns approximately 728.8 million acres and is the largest land owner in the United States.
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.
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Wyoming has half of its land federally owned and controlled.
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36.63%
Land grants
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Ellis Island is federally owned. No one individual has the papers to that particular piece of land.
Land Grants
A law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian mountains.
Ranches are privately owned while the open range is often federally or state owned land (in other words, public land).
Out of Arizona's total area of 72,688,000 acres, 28,064,307 acres is Federally owned (about 38.6%).