Do You Live Near a Homestead?

Do You Live Near a Homestead? (HMVZQ)

Location: Beatrice, NE 68310 Gage County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 17.143', W 96° 49.568'

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There's a good chance you do - Homesteading reached three of every five states. Is yours among them?

The Homestead Act of 1862 offered people 160 acres of free land - if they were willing to live on it, farm it, and build a home. This map shows the 30 homesteading states in which the government gave away 270 million acres. On the wall each state has a cutout that represents the proportion of homesteading land in that state. Can you see where homesteading was most important?

One hundred years ago the Congress passed the Homestead Act, probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted. Under the impetus of that Act and other laws, more than 1.1 billion acres?have been transferred to private and non-federal public ownership.
President John F. Kennedy, 1962
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Placed ByNational Park Service
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Date Added Thursday, September 4th, 2014 at 7:31am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)14T E 684792 N 4461737
Decimal Degrees40.28571667, -96.82613333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 17.143', W 96° 49.568'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 17' 8.58" N, 96° 49' 34.08" W
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Area Code(s)402
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 24379-24381 SW 75th Rd, Beatrice NE 68310, US
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