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Stock-Raising Homestead Act
The Stock-Raising Homestead Act of 1916 provided set- to about 700,000,000 acres (280,000,000 ha) of land,
tlers 640 acres (260 ha) of public land—a full section or 58,000,000 acres (23,000,000 ha) of which have surface
its equivalent—for ranching purposes. Unlike the rights owned privately or by a U.S. state.[1]
Homestead Act of 1862 or the Enlarged Homestead Act
of 1909, land homesteaded under the 1916 act separated
surface rights from subsurface rights, resulting in what
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later became known as split estates.[1] The subsurface • Homestead (area)
rights, also known as mineral rights, are the foundation
of recent oil and gas law in the United States.[1]
Under the act no cultivation of lands was required,
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but some range improvements were mandated as neces- [1] ^ Split EstatePrivate Surface / Public Minerals:
sary.[citation needed] What Does it Mean to You?, a 2006 Bureau of Land
By 2006, the Stock-Raising Homestead Act and subse- Management presentation
quent legislation and other legal changes resulted in the
federal government administering the subsurface rights
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