Hugo Neighborhood Association & Historical Society
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DO YOU KNOW YOUR PROPERTY'S FIRST PIONEER Land Patent Identifies Your Property’s Pioneer All privately owned real estate in the United States was granted to individuals under an original United States land patent.These land rights given to the original pioneer/holder of the property are passed down from assignee to assignee (i.e., buyer to buyer, owner to owner, and heir to heir). These rights are between the land owner and the Federal Government. The major different kinds of patents in the Hugo area include: sale or cash entry, donation land claim, military bounty or warrant, and homestead entry. Your patent will be very informative (e.g., the year your land passed from federal administration to your land’s pioneer and the United States’ President that signed your patent). It can also be the foundation for further intensified historical research with the National Archives and Records Administration. Getting Your Hugo Land Patent For Hugo real estate you may purchase a copy of your land patent by telephone for $1.10 per copy from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Oregon State Office. Your patent will usually be on one page.Bureau of Land Management (958.2) 1. Find the legal description of your property. BLM will want quarter-quarter section (40 acres), township, range, and county. 2. Telephone or write BLM. 3. Tell BLM you want to purchase a copy of the original land patent covering your property. Provide the legal description of your land. More Information Want more information? Contact an officer of the Hugo Neighborhood, or the BLM. Master Title Plats You can order what BLM identifies as Master Title/Use Plats by a township (36 square miles). These master title plats identify all federal transfers of land into private ownership. There are several different types of land patents applicable to the Hugo area.Cash Entry A prime consideration in early public land policy was securing revenues to the Nation from the sale of public lands. The Ordinance of 1785 established the cash-sale system. Various enactments through 1832 established 40 acres as the minimum amount of land that could be offered for sale. By 1891 the cash-sale laws were for the most part repealed. Oregon Donation Land Act (320 acres to each single male, or 640 acres to husband and wife) Act of Congress September 27, 1850, "An Act to create the office of Surveyor General of the Public Lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey, and to make donations to settlers of the public lands..." Act expired by limitation in 1855. Military Bounty/Warrant Land bounties for military services started with the Revolutionary War (e.g. Indian Wars, War of 1812, Mexican War of 1855, etc.). Act of Congress March 3, 1855, "An act in addition to certain acts granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States." Homestead Act (160 acres to head of family) Act of Congress May 20, 1862, "To Secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the Public Domain." The 1862 Act was revised many times through 1916 with the Stock Raising Homestead Act. In the end we ran out of public land capable of supporting a farm family. It became official with the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 which forbade settlement on public lands outside of Alaska before classification by the Department of Interior. After 1935 the number of homestead entries was insignificant. In any final evaluation of the Homestead Act one cannot ignore the significant basic fact that by its provisions 1.6 million Americans were able to obtain and receive title to 270.2 million acres of land. Web Site An informative BLM Land Office web site for our region with an overview of public land records is: http://www.or.blm.gov/lo/lopro.htmOctober 23, 2002 Back to Top |
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