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  2. Prairie Chapel Ranch - Wikipedia

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    Prairie Chapel Ranch, nicknamed Bush Ranch, is a 1,583- acre (6.41 km 2) ranch in unincorporated McLennan County, Texas, located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Crawford (about 25 miles (40 km) from Waco ). The property was acquired by George W. Bush in 1999 and was known as the Western White House during his presidency.

  3. Waggoner Ranch - Wikipedia

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    510,527 acres. The Waggoner Ranch is a historic north Texas ranch located 13 miles south of Vernon, Texas. The land was used primarily to raise crops, beef cattle and horses as well as for oil production. It was notable for being the largest ranch within one fence in the United States. [2] [3] It was originally established in 1852 near Vernon ...

  4. Texas General Land Office - Wikipedia

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    The Texas General Land Office ( GLO) is a state agency of the U.S. state of Texas, responsible for managing lands and mineral rights properties that are owned by the state. The GLO also manages and contributes to the state's Permanent School Fund. The agency is headquartered in the Stephen F. Austin State Office Building in Downtown Austin.

  5. Cinco Ranch, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Cinco Ranch, Texas. /  29.74139°N 95.75833°W  / 29.74139; -95.75833. Cinco Ranch is a census-designated place and master-planned community located in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city of Houston within Fort Bend and Harris counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

  6. Texas land survey system - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Land Survey System is often measured in Spanish Customary Units. The most important of these is the vara, which, while ambiguous in the past, was legally established to be exactly 33 and 1/3 inches long in June 1919. Gold, Kenneth G. (2009). Selected Texas Statutes and Boundary Decisions for Land Surveyors, Land Title Agents and Title ...

  7. Gadsden Purchase - Wikipedia

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    The Gadsden Purchase ( Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west ...

  8. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    The Public Land Survey System ( PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of ...

  9. Texas Pacific Land Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Pacific Land Corporation is a publicly traded real estate operating company with its administrative office in Dallas, Texas. Owning well over 880,000 acres (3,600 km 2) in 20 West Texas counties, TPL is among the largest private landowners in the state of Texas. It was previously organized as an unusual legal entity, a publicly traded ...

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