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• Ancestry.com - U.S., Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases, 1507-2000 $

  Original source: Historic Map Works LLC, Portland, Maine. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 $

  Original source: Various publishers of County Land Ownership Atlases. Microfilmed by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - U.S., Indexed Early Land Ownership and Township Plats, 1785-1898 $

  Original source: Public Land Survey Township Plats, compiled 1789. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

• Arphax Publishing Co. - Home of the Family Maps Land Patent Books

  The Family Maps Land Patent Books are published county by county, state by state. Data for each county is compiled from the Federal Land Patents database and displayed in these customized books. All books include a Patent Map and Patent Index for each of the Congressional Townships within the county. Deluxe Editions also include for each Township: a Road Map and a Historical Map, which includes waterways, watercourses & railroads. The Road and Historical Maps also include city-centers and cemeteries that can be found at NationalAtlas.gov. All books contain a separate Surname/Patent Index and a Surname/Township Index to help you dive into the right area of the county to find the location of your ancestor's federal land purchase. Family Maps books are a helpful visual reference tool that makes your federal lands research easier than ever.

  • Kansas

• Beacon Local Government GIS for the Web

  Online access to current maps, real estate data, tax information, and appraisal data for counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, South Carolina, South Dakota.

• BLM - The Bureau of Land Management

  • Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records

    The Official Land Records Site for the United States. This site has a searchable database of more than five million (1820-present) Federal land conveyance records, including scanned images of those records. There are also images related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810. The site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.

    • Reference - Frequently Asked Questions

    • Reference Center

      • Document Requests - Eastern States Patent Request

      • Document Requests - Land Entry Case File

        Explanation of steps involved to get copies of the National Archives and Records Administration Land Entry Case Files.

      • Glossary

      • Rectangular Survey System

    • Search Documents By Type, By Location, By Identifier

      There are 4 documents in the search: Patents, Survey Plats and Field Notes, Land Status Records, Control Document Index. Patents are for 49 states and DC. Survey Plates and Field Notes are for Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming. Land Status Records are for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota. Control Document Index is for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming.

• FamilySearch Wiki - Kansas Land and Property

• Kansas Historical Society - Property Ownership Maps or Plat Books

  Kansas County atlases or plat books contain township maps that show rural landowners. Maps are listed alphabetically by county. If the map has been digitized, there is a link to it on Kansas Memory.

• Kansas Land Records

  From Odesssa - A German-Russian Genealogical Library.