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Each local land office kept tract books and township plats. Records of the land offices and microfilm copies of all tracts are at the Nebraska State Historical Society. The NSHS library has a collection of over 500 county atlases or plat books. The approximate time period of these atlases and plat books is 1885 to the present. Of these estimated 500 atlases/plat books, 147 have been microfilmed ([http://www.nebraskahistory.org/databases/plat-books_microfilm.htm Nebraska Plat Books on Microfilm]). These are mainly from 1885 to 1947, though not every county has an atlas for every year. | Each local land office kept tract books and township plats. Records of the land offices and microfilm copies of all tracts are at the Nebraska State Historical Society. The NSHS library has a collection of over 500 county atlases or plat books. The approximate time period of these atlases and plat books is 1885 to the present. Of these estimated 500 atlases/plat books, 147 have been microfilmed ([http://www.nebraskahistory.org/databases/plat-books_microfilm.htm Nebraska Plat Books on Microfilm]). These are mainly from 1885 to 1947, though not every county has an atlas for every year. | ||
A database ([http://www.nebraskahistory.org/databases/atlas.shtml#nameidx Nebraska Atlases/Plat Books]) has been developed to give an accurate account of our holdings and to help researchers in verifying the existence of atlases/plat books for their years of interest. | |||
You can write to the society for a reference leaflet on Nebraska land laws and records. | You can write to the society for a reference leaflet on Nebraska land laws and records. | ||
[[ | === Homestead Land === | ||
An applicant received up to 160 acres (1/4 of a section) of undeveloped land in any federal-land state or territory. To obtain the land a settler had to: | |||
:#file application papers, and pay filing fees, eventually a total of $18 | |||
:#improve the land over the next five years (usually build a dwelling, and start a farm) | |||
:#file for a deed of title. | |||
Between 1862 and 1986 about 10 percent of all land in the United States, 270,000,000 acres (420,000 sq mi), were transferred from federal to private control through 1.6 million granted homesteads.<ref>United States, Department of the Interior, National Park Service, “About the Homestead Act” in ''Homestead National Monument of America'' at http://www.nps.gov/home/historyculture/abouthomesteadactlaw.htm (accessed 5 February 2010).</ref> | |||
[[Homestead Records|Homestead]] applications and other land office records are available from: | |||
'''Textual Reference Branch'''<br>National Archives and Records Administration<br>7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.<br>Washington, DC 20408<br>Telephone: 202-501-5395<br>Fax: 202-219-6273<br>Internet: http://www.archives.gov/ | '''Textual Reference Branch'''<br>National Archives and Records Administration<br>7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.<br>Washington, DC 20408<br>Telephone: 202-501-5395<br>Fax: 202-219-6273<br>Internet: http://www.archives.gov/ | ||