BLM Compiles Public Land
Statistics for 1962 Season
The 3ui'4h. of Land ^anage
ment has published a compilation
of statistics on public lands as a
Part of its annual report for 1962.
The purchase of Alaska in 1867
is noted as having been the second
largest land acquisition in the na
tion’s history, the 180;} Louisiana
Purchase totaling 523,446,400
acres compared with the 365,481,
600 acres comprising Alaska.
•''o.ne 1,410,382 acres have been
granted Alasl^ for schools and
other institutions. Added to the
more than 103 million acres the
State of Alaska can select under
the statehood act, state lands
eventually will total 105,148,515
acres, still leaving the federal
Liovei nment owning' th^ greatest
portion of Alaska.
Under the homestead laws, 456
original entries and selections
'vel'e allowed in 1962 in the An
chorage area and 195 in the Fair
banks area, totaling 79,294 acres.
During the year 213 final entries
were approved for the Anchorage
area involving 27,101 acres and
4S such final entries in the Fair
banks area, comprising 4,926
acres.
Of 606 “other entries” allowed
during the year, 197 were state
selections comprising 1,639,289
acres; 79 homesites, (257.71
acres i; 105 headquarters sites,
i478.14 acres); 71 trade and man
ufacturing sites, (3,307.46 acres)
and 3 54 Indian allotments, (13,
i 39.88 acres). There were 421
small tract sales during the vear,
involving 1,186 acres, and 13 fin
al entries approved under recrea
;;on and public purposes act sales,
comprising 520 acres.
Du sing 1962 also, 259 patents
vere issued in Alaska for 34,
952.66 acres of homestead land,
chile two patents for 715.59 acres
vere issued under the public auc
tion provisions, one patent was is
sued for 38.39 acres under the ap
plicable mineral laws and 81 pa
tents for 12.11 acres classifed as
town lots.
There were 2,176 unperfected
homestead entries in Alaska dur
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ing 1962, comprising- 268,498
H)f>2 acres. Other unperfected en
tries included 800 cases of State
of Alaska selections comprising
7,294.87 acres; 289 homesites, 337
trade and manufacturing sites,
311 headquarters sites, 370 Indian
allotments. In all, as of June 30,
1902, there were 7.634 “unclosed
cases” of land entries of all types,
including- both new cases and re
activated cases.
The report indicates that only
7,055,408 acres in Alaska have
been surveyed to date, leaving
358,426,192 acres unsurveyed.
Special land use permits in force
in Alaska during 1962 included
2,417 near Anchorage and 323
near hairbanks in the non-rental
category, while 413 at Anchorage
and 10 at Fairbanks were rental
permits.
By agency, the Bureau of Land
Management controls by far the
greatest share of federal lands in
Alaska, having jurisdiction over
309,177,394.5 acres. Other agen
cies, with acreages they control
shown in parentheses, are: Agri
cultural Research Service, (15J>8)
Forest Service, (20,741,993.7);
Soil Conservation Service, (6.9);
(oast and Geodetic Survey, (117
•3): Weather Bureau, (10.3); Pub
lic Health Service, (705.8); Bur
MineS’ <2-3): Fish and
U ddlife Service, (19.012,857.5)
National Park Service, (6,911,
270.6); Bureau of Indian Affairs
(4,072,043.9); Bureau of Reclama
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