Chapter F. Land, Forestry, and Fisheries (Series F 1-219)
Chapter F. Land, Forestry, and Fisheries (Series F 1-219) Public Lands of the United States: Series F 1-24 gift, tracts of land needed for various public purposes, such as sites for public buildings, defense installations, and· natural-resource ACQUISITION (F 1-7) conservation activities. Such lands are often referred to as acquired . F 1-1. Acquisition and extent of territory and public domain, lands, to distinguish them from public-domain lands. Complete 1181-1945. SOURCE: See detailed listing below. statistics are not available as to the extent of such acquisitions. t/j F 1-3. Acquisition of the territory of the United States, 1783- F 7. Estimated area of the public domain, 1802-1946. SOURCE: 1945. SOURCE: Areas of Acquisitions to the Territory of the United Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior. Data States . .. J Department of Interior, Office of the Secretary, Wash are estimates based on imperfect data for the years indicated. For ington, Government Printing Office, 1922. All areas are given as definition of public domain, see text for series F 4-6. computed in 1912 by a Federal Government committee repre senting the General Land Office and the Geological Survey (De PUBLIC LANDS AND THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM (F 8-24) partment of the Interior) and the Bureau of Statistics and the Bureau of the Census (then in the Department of Commerce and F 8-16, F 19-24. General note. These series on disposal of public Labor).· Figures shown here have not been adjusted for the new hinds, 1800-1945, were provided by the Bureau of Land Manage area measurements for the United States which were made for the ment, Department of the Interior, except as otherwise noted.
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