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'''''[[United States]] > [[Portal:United States Land and Property|Land and Property]] > [[Homestead_Records]]''''' | '''''[[United States]] > [[Portal:United States Land and Property|Land and Property]] > [[Homestead_Records|Homestead Records]]''''' | ||
=== Homestead Requirements and Results === | === Homestead Requirements and Results === | ||
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In 1862 the United States enacted a homestead law to encourage development of most empty western federal lands and promote the yeoman farmer ideal. The original homestead law gave an applicant 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: | In 1862 the United States enacted a homestead law to encourage development of most empty western federal lands and promote the yeoman farmer ideal. The original homestead law gave an applicant 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 a filing fees, total $18, | :#file application papers, and pay a filing fees, total $18, | ||
#improve the land over the next five years (usually build a dwelling and farm), and, | :#improve the land over the next five years (usually build a dwelling and farm), and, | ||
#file for a deed of title. | :#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> | 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> | ||
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*[http://www.nps.gov/home/index.htm Homestead National Monument of America] – National Park Service | *[http://www.nps.gov/home/index.htm Homestead National Monument of America] – National Park Service | ||
*[http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/ Land Patent Search] – Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records | *[http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/ Land Patent Search] – Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records | ||
*Constance Potter “Genealogy Notes: De Smet, Dakota Territory, Little Town in the National Archives, Part 2” Prologue (Winter 2003), 35:4 at http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/little-town-in-nara-2.html (accessed 5 February 2010). | *Constance Potter “Genealogy Notes: De Smet, Dakota Territory, Little Town in the National Archives, Part 2” Prologue (Winter 2003), 35:4 at http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/little-town-in-nara-2.html (accessed 5 February 2010). | ||
*[http://wwwdb.glo.state.tx.us/central/LandGrants/LandGrantsSearch.cfm Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search] | *[http://wwwdb.glo.state.tx.us/central/LandGrants/LandGrantsSearch.cfm Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search] | ||