Surveyor’s Walk
Donation Land Claim No. 45 · Township 9 South, Range 6 West · Willamette Meridian · Polk County, Oregon
Where it sits in the township
The surveyor’s own plat of this township is kept by the Bureau of Land Management: BLM Oregon/Washington survey records for T9S R6W.
The same ground today
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USGS aerial imagery. Red: Donation Land Claim No. 45, as the survey grid draws it.
In the surveyor’s own words
Nobody has copied out the surveyor’s words for this claim yet. The notes are out there, written in ink, probably mentioning a tree or two, or the lack of one.
Look it up yourself
- BLM Oregon/Washington survey records for T9S R6W (plats and field notes, free)
- BLM General Land Office Records (free). In the map search box choose 'Legal Land Description', then type the township and range. For this card, type T9S R6W, Willamette Meridian, Oregon.
Then paste what you find into your folder (start one by finding your land).
Ring the bell
Ask us to prepare this township: we copy out the surveyor’s words by hand and put them on this card. Nobody has asked yet. Be the first.
School land
Donation Land Claim No. 45 is a claim, surveyed on its own lines rather than as a numbered section. Under the federal school-land law for Oregon (1859), Sections 16 and 36 of every township were set aside for schools. Where a claim lies partly inside one of them, the rules for land settled before the survey decide whether the claim or the school grant held that part. This card doesn’t yet show which sections the claim covers; the school sections in this township are listed below.
“Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the following propositions be, and the same are hereby, offered to the said people of Oregon for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted, shall be obligatory on the United States and upon the said State of Oregon, to wit: First, That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of public lands in said State, and where either of said sections, or any part thereof, has been sold or otherwise been disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to said State for the use of schools.”
The school sections in this township: Section 16 and Section 36.
Reserved earlier by the 1848 Territorial Act, § 20. Checked against the page image of the official scan.
About this claim
Donation Land Claim No. 45 covers 159.36 acres on the record.
Sources
- Bureau of Land Management, national survey grid map (CadNSDI): township, section and claim lines
- U.S. Census Bureau geocoder: county and state
- USGS The National Map: aerial imagery
- 43 U.S.C. § 751 (how sections are numbered)
- 11 Stat. 383
- Act of February 14, 1859, ch. 33, § 4, 11 Stat. 383, 383 (35th Cong., 2d Sess.), “An Act for the Admission of Oregon into the Union.”
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