Land Patent Committee
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Why the Land Patent process
Holding down a Land Patent
Role of the Land Patent Committee
January 14, 2025 - Anna Talks about Land Patents and Renaming your Homestead, the role of the Land Patent Committee, and answers Questions
* How to Rename Your Land
* How to get off the Tax Rolls
Why we do a Land Patent
Example from the Washington Assembly
Ron Gibson's Land Patent Class
3rd. Do it yourself...... Land Patent research tips
1. On your Tax Statement Find your Section #, Township # and Range #
2. Locate your Patent on the BLM Website. Download a copy and Order 3 certified copies
3. Research your Chain of Title
- Contact a Title Company
- Do it yourself
- Hire a Researcher
If doing yourself google your County Recorder and locate link to Online document search to get access to your Counties Land records website
You may need to start an account, pay a subscription fee or pay to view the documents
There may be more than one site, older records are often on a separate archive site
4. Start with your deed, search back as far as you can by sellers name on each deed
If your in a Plat, search the records for the plat, that plat will have a List of recorded documents under the plat, for plat changes, it is helpful to look at the plat map, as that will tell you what the plat was before the new plat, and so on. Once you reach a dead end, you may have to go to the archive records next or there was a foreclosure, tax sale, death, plat change or some other event in which you might need to start your research from the land patent and go forward using the meets and bounds descriptions to link your chain up to where you left off. See Below explanations of meets and bounds. This can get very confusing. (Note... Meets and bounds are read backwards)
5. Prepare your Chain of Title Summary with the following info
- Seller Name to Buyer Name and the date of the sale (not the date recorded).
- Make note of Each Document # for each deed; the older entries will be a Book and Page Number. You will need these numbers to request Certified Copies of each Deed from the county recorder. Typical cost is $10.00 for a certified copy.
- Note: you want ownership transfer documents, they wont all necessarily be Deeds, there may be ownership thru a divorce decree, a will, or trust, etc. Include those transfer documents if that is how the transfer took place.
6. Create the Rest of the Land Patent Documents
- Summary Chain of Title
- Copy of your Deed showing ownership
- Copy of the Land Patent
7. watch the 5 part video series where he goes over the book
- I strongly suggest watching this seminar... Ron goes into more explanation and detail on Land Patents, the process, posting it and more.
(6 hour Training on Land patents)
Reading Meets & Bounds
