Saturday, February 2, 2013

It's Time for the Federal Government to Return Land it Took From the Western States under its claim of Manifest Destiny


How Many Acres of Public Domain  Land are there in the twelve  Western States and including North and South Dakota?



504,920,073 acres

 
How Many Acres of Public Domain are there in the remaining states?


3,039,551 acres 
 
Texas has a total of 168,217,600 acres. If the federal government owned the same percentage of Public Domain land in Texas as it has in New Mexico, (24,093,960 acres which is 30.9% of  New Mexico's total acreage), it would own 519.8 million acres of Texas' land.
 
How much public domain land did the government take from Texas?
58,646 Acres

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