Records of the Office of the Surveyor General for Kansas & Nebraska : [selected records]
Creator: United States. Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska
Date: 1854-1875
Level of Description: Sub-collection/group
Material Type: Government record
Call Number:
MICROFILM: AR 144
Unit ID: 453973
Space Required/Quantity: 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm
Title (Main title): Records of the Office of the Surveyor General for Kansas & Nebraska : [selected records]
Administrative History
Administrative History: Director of land surveys in Kansas and Nebraska territories, authorized by Congress to supervise the work of contract surveyors.
Scope and Content
Scope and content: Selected records of the surveyor general in Kansas. Included are surveys of Kansas' boundaries; meridians, parallels, & survey (numbered) townships; and Indian reservations. The microfilm also contains lists of surveyors, descriptions of Indian land allotments, copies of diagrams accompanying instructions, and valuation lists for Indian lands.
Contents: Alphabetical list of deputies and examiners of public surveys in Kansas -- Descriptions of selections and allotments of land made for the United Bands of Swan Creek and Black River Chippewa and the Munsee or Christian Indians, in conformity with the stipulations of the treaty concluded with said bands on the 16th of July 1859 -- Copies of diagrams accompanying instructions : includes b'dries of Kansas Reserve, Sac & Fox Reserve, Kansas; Pawnee Reserve, Nebraska -- [survey of the west boundary of Missouri] -- Valuation lists for Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankeshaw, Wea, Delaware, and Iowa Indian trust lands, Kansas Territory -- Surveys of exterior (township) lines in Kansas -- Surveys, meridian and parallel lines in Kansas -- Surveys of the Osage Diminished Reserve, 1870-1871 -- Surveys of the Wyandott reserves under the Treaty of March 17, 1842, [created] 1857-1860 -- [survey of the Kansas Half-Breed Indian Lands (under provisions of the Treaty of June 3, 1825), [created] 1864.
Portions of Collection Separately Described:
- Alphabetical List of Deputies and Examiners of Public Surveys in Kansas
- Copies of Diagrams Accompanying Instruction -- Includes Boundaries of Kansas & Nebraska
- Description of the Selections and Allotments of Land Made for the United Bands
- Plats and Diagrams of Surveys: Indian Mission Land
- Plats and Diagrams of Surveys: Kansas Half-breed Indian Lands
- Plats and Diagrams of Surveys: Miscellaneous Indian Reserves and Trust Lands
- Plats and Diagrams of Surveys: Osage Diminished Reserve and Trust Lands
- Plats and Diagrams of Surveys: Wyandotte Indian Reserves
- Survey of west boundary of Missouri
- Survey Plats & Diagrams: 1st - 5th Standard Parallels South of 6th Principal Meridian
More separate components
Locators:
No Locators Identified
Microfilm:
- AR 144: Records of the Office of the Surveyor General for Kansas and Nebraska 1854-1875
Index Terms
Subjects
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United States. Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska -- Archives
United States. Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska -- Surveys
Kansas
Kansas -- Boundaries -- Surveys
Kansas -- Surveys
Surveying -- Public lands -- Kansas
Topographical surveying -- Kansas
Indian allotments -- Kansas
Indian reservations -- Kansas -- Surveys
Indian reservations -- Valuation -- Kansas
Indians of North America -- Kansas
Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Kansas
Military reservations -- Kansas -- Surveys
Public lands -- Kansas -- Surveys
Real property -- Valuation -- Kansas
Surveyors -- Kansas
Surveys
Creators and Contributors
Agency Classification:
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Federal Agencies. U.S. Department of the Interior. U.S. Surveyor General of Kansas & Nebraska.
Additional Information for Researchers
Use and reproduction: Public record.
Ownership/Custodial Hist.: Microfilmed 1958 from originals then in the custody of the Kansas secretary of state; subsequently transferred to the state archives, Kansas State Historical Society.
Add'l physical form: Microfilm. Topeka [Kan.] : Kansas State Historical Society, 1958.
Notes
General Note: Forms part of: Records of the Office of the Surveyor General for Kansas and Nebraska (record group 910, subgroup 3), State Archives, Kansas Historical Society (Topeka).
