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Does anybody have a copy of the land patent and survey database from the BLM GLO?

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Hi, I'm working on a historical GIS project which tracks the settlement of the West. I'm using BLM data to map the extent of public land surveys and patented parcels on any given date from 1788 to today. I'm just missing the patent and survey files from the General Land Office database, which you used to be able to download in bulk until 2022. It's a collection of CSV files which contain most land patents and township surveys registered in the public land states.

I spoke with someone from the BLM and he says because the GLO website is ancient, they removed functionality, including bulk data downloads. I've tried several methods to get those files, from a FOIA request to scraping it myself. No luck.

Did anyone manage to download the patent and survey data before the page was removed? I'd much appreciate it if you could share a copy with me. If there's a better forum to ask this, please let me know.


 
Posted : December 31, 2024 3:26 pm