Southeast Township
Land Patents

This sections details the holders of government land patents. The United States issued these titles from 1820 to 1908 through out the MidWest. They represent the first title holder to land formerly owned by the US government. I've taken the plat description and mapped each section. Each section contains 640 acres, which can be subdivided. By using this system of land description the exact location of each title can be ascertained.

One interesting outcome of plotting these titles is seeing who lived next to who. In the following maps the small squares represent 40 acres of land (a quarter quarter). Each land holding details the Owner of the land, the date the land was purchased and the plat location within the section.