Lake of the Ozarks

This week, we take a journey to central Missouri to learn about the Lake of the Ozarks. The Lake of the Ozarks was created by the damming of the Osage River in 1931. The original General Land Office survey was approved October 13, 1845 and depicts the Osage River before the building of a hydroelectric dam turned the area into a lake, which is now one of the most popular vacation spots in the country. Read more on ArcGIS Story Maps.

The GLO web site provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than 12 million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present.
 
The site also hosts images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records, and is the most visited website in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.