Historic regions of the United States

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These are historic regions of the United States, meaning regions that were legal entities in the past, or which the average modern American would no longer immediately recognize as a regional description.

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[edit] Colonial era (before 1776)

The Thirteen Colonies

The 13 colonies ceded their western claims to the federal government, allowing the creation of the first western territories (and later, states)
The 13 colonies ceded their western claims to the federal government, allowing the creation of the first western territories (and later, states)
Main article: Thirteen Colonies

Colonial districts other than the original thirteen

Main article: European colonization of the Americas

Colonies proposed but unrealized or unrecognized

[edit] Regions ceded, annexed or purchased from states or foreign powers

See also: United States territorial acquisitions, Manifest Destiny

Census Bureau map (circa 1974?) depicting territorial acquisitions and dates of statehood or of ratification of the Constitution.
Census Bureau map (circa 1974?) depicting territorial acquisitions and dates of statehood or of ratification of the Constitution.


National Atlas map depicting United States territorial acquisitions.
National Atlas map depicting United States territorial acquisitions.

[edit] Internal land grants, cessions, purchases, districts, claims or settlements

The following are land grants, cessions, purchases, defined districts (official or otherwise) or named settlements made within an area that was already part of the original 13 colonies or a state of the Union or U.S. territory, including major land acquisitions (of varying degrees of legality) from Native Americans that did not involve international treaties or state cessions.

[edit] Iowa

[edit] New York

[edit] Ohio

Map of the Ohio Lands
Map of the Ohio Lands

Main article: Ohio Lands

  • Canal Lands
  • College Lands
  • College Township
  • Congress Lands or Congressional Lands (1798-1821)
  • Connecticut Western Reserve
  • Dolerman's Grant
  • Dohrman Tract
  • Donation Tract
  • Ephraim Kimberly Grant
  • Firelands or Sufferers' Lands
  • Fort Washington
  • French Grant
  • Gnadenhutten Tract
  • Indian Land Grants (Same as Moravian?)
  • Maumee Road Lands
  • Michigan Survey or Michigan Meridian Survey or Toledo Tract
  • Miami & Erie Canal Lands
  • Ministerial Lands
  • Moravian Indian Grants
  • Ohio & Erie Canal Lands
  • Ohio Company of Associates
    • Purchase on the Muskingum
  • Refugee Tract
  • Salem Tract
  • Salt Reservations or Salt Lands
  • Schoenbrunn Tract
  • School Lands
  • Seven Ranges or Old Seven Ranges
  • Symmes Purchase or Miami Purchase and/or the Land Between the Miamis
  • Toledo Strip, object of a nearly bloodless war between Ohio and Michigan
  • Turnpike Lands
  • Twelve-Mile Square Reservation
  • Two-Mile Square Reservation
  • United States Military District
  • Virginia Military District
  • Zane's Tracts or Zane's Grant or Ebenezer Zane Tract

[edit] Oklahoma

Map of Oklahoma and Indian Territories
Map of Oklahoma and Indian Territories

[edit] Indian Reserves

[edit] Pennsylvania

[edit] Former organized territories

See also: Organized incorporated territories of the United States

The following is a list of organized U.S. territories that have become states, in the order of the date organized.

[edit] Possessions and overseas territories subsequently retroceded

[edit] Independent states admitted to the union


[edit] Unrecognized or self-declared entities

[edit] Native American-related regions

See also: Historic regions of the United States#Oklahoma
  • Comancheria, the Oklahoma Panhandle during the late 1800s.
  • Dinétah, named for the Navajo Indian Reservation.
  • Lenapehoking, named for the Delaware or Lenilenape Indians.
  • Oklahoma as a separate Native American country, especially the Cherokee Nation and four of the Five Civilized Tribes.
  • Aztlan, a majority Hispanic/Mexican-American country based in the Southwest U.S. named for the ancestral homeland of the Aztec of Mexico said to originated from the land about 1000 AD, and that land formerly belonged to Spain and Mexico until the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave it to the U.S.

[edit] Nicknames

[edit] See also

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