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§119a Boundaries

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XIII— - PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK › § 119a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Petrified Forest National Park must include specific surveyed lands under the Gila and Salt River meridian. Those lands are in these townships and sections: Township 20 North, Range 23 East: sections 1–3, 10–15, 22–27, and 34–36. Township 20 North, Range 24 East: the entire township. Township 20 North, Range 25 East: sections 4–9 and 16–18. Township 19 North, Range 23 East: sections 1–3 and 10–15. Township 19 North, Range 24 East: sections 2–10; in section 11 the northwest quarter and the north half of the northeast quarter; sections 16, 17, 18, 21, 28, and 33; and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27. Township 18 North, Range 24 East: sections 4, 9, 13–16, 21–28, and 33–36, and the southwest quarter of section 10. Township 17 North, Range 24 East: the west halves of sections 2, 11, 14, 23, and 26, and all of sections 3–10, 15–22, and 27–33. Township 17 North, Range 23 East: sections 34–36. Township 16 North, Range 24 East: the west halves of sections 3 and 10, and all of sections 4–9. Township 16 North, Range 23 East: all of sections 1, 2, 11, and 12, and the east halves of sections 3 and 10.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §119a

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The Petrified Forest National Park, authorized to be established pursuant to section 119 of this title, shall comprise the following described lands: gila and salt river meridian Township 20 north, range 23 east: section 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, 36, all. Township 20 north, range 24 east: All. Township 20 north, range 25 east: section 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, all. Township 19 north, range 23 east: section 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, all. Township 19 north, range 24 east: section 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, all; section 11, northwest quarter and north half northeast quarter; section 16, 17, 18, 21, 28, 33, all. Township 18 north, range 24 east: section 4, 9, all; section 10, southwest quarter; section 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36, all. Township 17 north, range 24 east: section 2, 11, 14, 23, 26, west halves; section 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, all. Township 17 north, range 23 east: section 34, 35, 36, all. Township 16 north, range 24 east: section 3 and 10, west halves; section 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, all. Township 16 north, range 23 east: section 1, 2, 11, 12, all; section 3, 10, east halves. Township 19 north, range 24 east: the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–250 inserted “Township 19 north, range 24 east: the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1986 Amendment Pub. L. 99–250, § 2, Feb. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 13, provided that: “The provisions of this Act [amending this section] shall not take effect until the Secretary of the Interior determines that fee simple title to the property described in section 1 has vested in the United States. Such determination of the Secretary shall be published in the Federal Register.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 119a

Title 16Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73