Everything we looked at
Found 10 · Found nearby 4 · Searched, nothing 0 · Kept elsewhere 1 · Not yet looked at 53.
Written documents 30
The county's description of this land
Legal description, tax lots, assessed acreage
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Where the rest is kept: Polk County Assessor; Oregon's statewide tax-map viewer
Other recorded rights to cross or use this land
Recorded easements, roads, rights of way
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Where the rest is kept: Polk County Clerk’s Office (recording)
Conservation easements and special tax programs
Conservation easements, forest deferral, special assessments
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Where the rest is kept: Polk County Assessor
Modern surveys of this land
Modern surveys and corner records
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Sale prices and assessed values
Sales history and values
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Where the rest is kept: Polk County Assessor
The zoning rules for this land
Zoning and land-use rules
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Rights to use water
Water rights, including canceled
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What the first surveyors wrote about this ground
Original field notes
Found · record in hand
Bureau of Land Management, Oregon land records, Oct 10, 2026
The trees at the corners in the 1850s
Bearing trees and witness trees at corners
Found · record in hand
Bureau of Land Management, Oregon land records, Oct 10, 2026
Where the rest is kept: Bob Zybach's published studies
Settlers' donation land claims
Donation land claims
Found · record in hand
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Oct 10, 2026
Where the rest is kept: Genealogical Forum of Oregon Research Library; FamilySearch; Ancestry
The first owners from the government
Patents: homestead, cash, railroad, other
Found · record in hand
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Oct 10, 2026; Bureau of Land Management, Oregon land records, Oct 10, 2026
The first owner's land entry papers
Land entry files
Not yet looked at
Where the rest is kept: National Archives at Seattle (federal records from Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Idaho)
School land
School trust land: Sections 16 and 36, lieu selections, state sales
Found · record in hand
Bureau of Land Management survey grid, Oct 10, 2026; Bureau of Land Management, Oregon land records, Oct 10, 2026
Railroad and wagon-road grants
Railroad and wagon-road grants; revestment of 1916
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Owners since the first patent
Chain of deeds from patent to today
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Where the rest is kept: Polk County Clerk’s Office (recording); FamilySearch; Ancestry
Earlier taxpayers
Old assessment rolls and tax lists
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The buildings and their history
Historic buildings and house history
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Where the rest is kept: Oregon Historic Sites Database; Polk County Assessor
Building, septic and well permits
Permits, septic, well and building records
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Households in the census, through 1950
Census households through 1950
Found nearby · regional
Census Bureau, Oct 10, 2026
Where the rest is kept: FamilySearch; Ancestry; IPUMS historical census tables
Births, deaths, marriages and estates
Births, deaths, marriages, estates
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Nearby cemeteries and burials
Cemeteries and burials
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Where the rest is kept: Find a Grave
What the newspapers said
Newspapers
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Where the rest is kept: Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon; paid newspaper sites
What the old county histories say
County histories and biographies
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Where the names of creeks, hills and roads came from
Place names
Found nearby · nearby
U.S. Geological Survey place names, Oct 10, 2026
The nearest school, post office, church and grange
Schools, post offices, churches, granges
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Local historical societies and museums
Historical society and museum holdings
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Where the rest is kept: Polk County Historical Society: Polk County Museum and research library; Forest History Society
When the roads were built and paved
Roads and highways
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Railroads and logging railroads
Railroads and logging railroads
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Mills, logging camps and other industry
Mills, logging and industry nearby
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Where the rest is kept: Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon; Forest History Society; Polk County Historical Society: Polk County Museum and research library
When electricity, telephone and mail arrived
Electricity, telephone, mail routes
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Images 13
Where this land sits on the survey grid
Township, range, section, meridian; claim or lot
Found · record in hand
Bureau of Land Management survey grid, Oct 10, 2026
The first survey map
Original township plats
Found · record in hand
Bureau of Land Management, Oregon land records, Oct 10, 2026; Polk County filed plats (PolkMap surveys index), Oct 10, 2026
Names on the old ownership maps
Ownership atlases (Metsker)
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Where the rest is kept: University of Oregon and Oregon State University map libraries
The old topographic maps
Topographic map editions
Found · record in hand
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps, Oct 10, 2026
Other old maps
Other historic maps
Not yet looked at
Where the rest is kept: David Rumsey Map Collection; Oregon Digital
Old air photos
Aerial photographs 1930s to 1970s
Kept elsewhere · site bars automated access
Where the rest is kept: Oregon Digital; U.S. Geological Survey EarthExplorer; University of Oregon Libraries, Maps and Aerial Photography collection (Knight Library); USDA Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, Geospatial Enterprise Operations (formerly the Aerial Photography Field Office); University of California, Santa Barbara, aerial photograph library
The land from the air today
Modern imagery and satellite series
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Fire insurance maps of town buildings
Fire insurance maps (towns)
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Old photographs in public collections
Photographs in public collections
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Where the rest is kept: Oregon Digital
The forest of 1914 and the 1930s
Forest-type maps, 1914 and 1930s
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Recent tree cutting and regrowth
Recent harvests and tree-cover change
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Changes in land use since 1985
Land use by year since 1985
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The bare ground under the trees
Lidar features under the trees
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The land itself 21
The rock under this land
Geology and landforms
Found · record in hand
Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries geologic map, Oct 10, 2026; U.S. Geological Survey state geologic map, Oct 10, 2026
The soils and what they are good for
Soils by acre with ratings
Found · record in hand
Natural Resources Conservation Service soil survey, Oct 10, 2026
Height, slope and the way the land faces
Elevation, slope, aspect
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Rain, warmth and cold
Rain and temperature since 1895
Found nearby · regional
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate records, Oct 10, 2026
Storms, floods, freezes and droughts
Storms, floods, freezes, droughts by date
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Streams, springs and wetlands
Streams, springs, wetlands
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Creek flows and the biggest floods
Gage records and biggest floods
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Wells and how deep they go
Wells and well logs
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Mapped flood zones
Flood zones
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Landslide, earthquake and wildfire hazard maps
Landslides, earthquake, wildfire risk
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Mines and quarries
Mines, quarries, prospects
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Cleanup and contamination sites nearby
Cleanup and contamination sites
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Plants recorded near here
Plants recorded nearby, oldest first
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What grew here before settlement
Vegetation in the 1850s
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Fires on this land
Fire history
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Wildlife, then and now
Wildlife, then and now
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Crops and livestock
Crops and farming
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The people who lived here before the surveyors
Native peoples: treaty, tribes today, regional history
Found nearby · regional
U.S. Forest Service map of tribal land cessions (after Royce, 1899), Oct 10, 2026; Bob Zybach's published studies, Oct 10, 2026
Where the rest is kept: Tribal Treaties Database, Oklahoma State University; Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Historic Preservation Office (Cultural Resources Department); Bob Zybach's published studies
Old sites and artifacts: the law, and whom to call
Archaeology: context, law, whom to call
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Native place names and trails
Native place names and trails
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Where the rest is kept: Bob Zybach's published studies
What you can still find by walking the land
The walk: corners, house sites, old trees, repeat photos
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Living memory 4
Memories already recorded
Oral histories already recorded
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What earlier owners and neighbors remember
Interviews with earlier owners and neighbors
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Your family's photographs and papers
Family photographs and papers
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Your own records
The owner’s own records
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