Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§261 Establishment; description of area

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXVIII— - CUMBERLAND GAP NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 261

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When the United States takes legal ownership of chosen lands, buildings, and other property in the Cumberland Gap–Cumberland Ford area (parts of the Warriors Path and Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Road) in Bell and Harlan Counties, Kentucky; Lee County, Virginia; and Claiborne County, Tennessee, and the Secretary of the Interior says they are needed for park purposes, those places will be set aside as Cumberland Gap National Historical Park for the public’s benefit and inspiration. The United States must not buy any of those lands with public money.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §261

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When title to such lands, structures, and other property in the Cumberland Gap-Cumberland Ford areas, being portions of the Warriors Path of the Indians and Wilderness Road of Daniel Boone, within Bell and Harlan Counties, Kentucky; Lee County, Virginia; and Claiborne County, Tennessee; as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary or desirable for national historical park purposes, shall have been vested in the United States, such area or areas shall be, and they are, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public park for the benefit and inspiration of the people and shall be known as the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any lands within the aforesaid areas.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1943—Act May 26, 1943, omitted proviso relating to inclusion of certain specified lands.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 261

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73