modern states, a portion of land is held by central or local governments. This is called public land, state land, or Crown land (Commonwealth realms). The...

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...

The Trust for Public Land is a U.S. nonprofit organization with a mission to "create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities...

In telecommunication, a public land mobile network (PLMN) is a combination of wireless communication services offered by a specific operator in a specific...

Public domain land is land that cannot be sold because it legally belongs to the citizenry. Public domain land is managed by a public entity—such as a...

exists on land held by a government, lands that are typically called public land, state land, or Crown land. When one person owns a piece of land that is...

In the United States, a public land state is a U.S. state in which all lands were originally public lands owned by the United States federal government...

The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern...

"walkie-talkies"). Public land mobile radio systems are available for use by commercial businesses offering communications service to the public for a fee. This...

Commonwealth realms, crown land is considered public land and is apart from the monarch's private estate. In Australia, public lands without a specific...

land was to be sold at public auction. There were also significant land grants in the Swan River Colony (Western Australia), and in Van Diemen's Land...

places in the United States by state Protected areas of the United States Public Land Survey System Territorial evolution of the United States Historic regions...

land can still be obtained by making productive use of it. A mining claim is the claim of the right to extract minerals from a tract of public land....

originally put into place regarding the usage of land. As society shifted from rural to urban, public land regulation became important, especially to city...

roam, or "everyman's right", is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land, lakes, and rivers for recreation and exercise...

The Public Land Corps (PLC) is a work and education program for young people and veterans that is run by the United States land management agencies in...

public land transportation services. The agency is in charge of granting franchises or accreditations and regulating public vehicles such as Public Utility...

A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated...

needed] In some jurisdictions, this rule may also apply to entry upon public land having restricted access. A court may order payment of damages or an...

In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), containing 640...

comfort in land travel is one of LTO's continuing commitments. It aims to be a frontline government agency that showcases fast and efficient public service...

The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales...

The Land Public Transport Commission (Malay: Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat), Abbr.: SPAD, was a Malaysian statutory body set up to plan for, regulate...

100 km2). The Unassigned Lands were considered some of the best unoccupied public land in the United States. The Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 was passed...

1850, established a three-member Public Land Commission to determine the validity of prior Spanish and Mexican land grants. It required landowners who...

the federal government in 2007 with some funding from the Trust for Public Land and others; both were given to the city. They were then designated as...

laws regarding the distribution of public land and were forced to rely on the small possibility of obtaining private land from their families. Inheritance...

Land trusts are nonprofit organizations which own and manage land, and sometimes waters. There are three common types of land trust, distinguished from...

land office in the land district in which the public land was located. The claimant filled out entry papers to select the public land, and the land office...

but does not include any public land". In most countries of the Pacific islands, customary land remains the dominant land tenure form. Distinct customary...