BLM Maps
Metsker Atlases
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BLM Maps, Oregon (Ranges 5 & 6 West, indexing complete, over 1900 names)
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has extensive historical information about land ownership. The agency maintains cadastral survey maps to land
ownership in Oregon from the establishment of the Donation Land Claim (DLC) Act of 1850 to the present. We have 3,268 Oregon BLM maps from the 1850's through the early 1900's.
You will be able to research the maps two ways. We are presently indexing the maps so that they can be searched through
a surname search. We will update the database as the indexing is completed, working from Washington to the California border one range at a time. We will indicate, above, the completed ranges to date.
These are great maps and the detail in each is outstanding.
The second way to research our maps will be to go directly to a map selecting one of the 66 Ranges in Oregon.
On the drop down window below you can click on "View BLM Maps". The next window will give you all
of the Ranges, 15 West and 51 East, for the state. Click on the Range and select any of the maps available in each Township from north to south in the state of Oregon.
In addition, there are four maps that read, OR_NE_Section, etc., that
are all four quarters of a BLM state map that will give you the T & R numbers for the entire state. These maps are at least 14MB to 18MB in size and will not load quickly unless you have a computer running at least 300mhz. I suggest that
you save these maps to disk or your hard drive and open them in Windows Imaging or another graphics software. They will give you the Township and Range numbers you may be looking for that correspond to any site in Oregon and then you can
go directly to that T & R map. This will make your research much faster if you do not know which Township and Range you need.
On each of these quarter maps you will find on the outside margins a large black diamond that represents an arrow
that the BLM uses to indicate the line that shows the T & R numbering. There are seveal of these throughout the margins. Townships run East and West and Ranges run North and South. So if you find an arrow on the right hand margin that will indicate numbering for a Township. Arrows that are on the bottom or
top margins of the maps will indicate the numbering points for Ranges. You will have to locate these and then follow them by counting to the Township and Range you want to identify. Don't get discouraged, this does take some concentration if you have not worked with
T & R maps before. The end result is rewarding and I always find the maps fun to explore. Be sure to email us if you have any questions or need assistance. |
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