land office
Federal acreage agency
A land office is a government office that handles the sale, transfer, and registration of public lands.
In 19th-century America, land offices processed claims during westward expansion, often overwhelmed by eager settlers.
This history gives us land-office business—a phrase meaning brisk, high-volume trade: The ice cream stand did a land-office business on the hot weekend.
- title deedsOwnership transfer documents
- deed of trustLoan collateral agreement for property
- quarter section160-acre land unit
- forty acresTen-acre quadruple
- frontier settlementCommunity at territory's edge
manifest destiny · homesteading · squatter's rights · property records · westward expansion · eminent domain · public domain · territorial claims · property law · real estate transactions · mineral rights · easements · zoning regulations · boundary disputes · tax assessments · forest reserves · protected areas
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- Colonial Eracolonial assembly, colonial charter, colonial militia, colonial port, crown colony
- homesteadshomesteader, prairie home, claim, settler, farmhouse
- land usezoning ordinances, suburban sprawl, industrial, pastureland, commercial zoning
- land recordsparcel, cadastre, plat, deed of trust, title deeds
land, office, lands, landed, landing, landings, landlord, landlady, landowner