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] The Thirteen Colonies
- Province of New Hampshire
- Province of Massachusetts Bay
- Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
- Connecticut Colony
- Province of New York
- Province of New Jersey
- Province of Pennsylvania
- Delaware Colony
- Province of Maryland
- Colony and Dominion of Virginia
- Province of North Carolina
- Province of South Carolina
- Province of Georgia
[edit] Colonial districts other than the original thirteen
- Dominion of New England
- East Jersey
- Jamestown Settlement
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- New Haven Colony
- New Netherland
- New Sweden
- Plymouth Colony
- Popham Colony
- Province of Carolina
- Province of Maine
- Roanoke Colony
- West Jersey
[edit] Regions ceded, annexed or purchased from states or foreign powers
See also: United States territorial acquisitions, Manifest Destiny
- Alaska Purchase
- Gadsden Purchase
- Louisiana Purchase, originally Louisiana (New France)
- Mexican Cession
- Oregon Country
- Red River Basin
- Florida Purchase
- State Cessions
- Texas Annexation
[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.
- Arizona Territory (CSA) (Arizona, New Mexico)
- Carver's Tract (Wisconsin)
- Cherokee Strip (Kansas)
- Comancheria
- Cumberland District, North Carolina aka District of Miro (Tennessee)
- Department of Alaska
- District of Alaska
- District of Arkansas
- District of Kentucky
- District of Louisiana
- District of Maine
- District of West Augusta (Pennsylvania, Virginia)
- Equivalent Lands (Connecticut-Massachusetts)
- Fairfax Grant (Virginia)
- German Coast (Louisiana)
- Gorges Patent (Maine)
- Granville District (North Carolina)
- Honey Lands (disputed tract of land, Iowa-Missouri)
- Jackson Purchase (Kentucky)
- Marquette District (Wisconsin)
- Military Tract of 1812 (Illinois, Michigan, Arkansas, Missouri)
- Mobile District
- New Hampshire Grants (Vermont)
- New York Lands (Kansas)
- Pembina Territory (Dakotas, Minnesota)
- Platte Purchase (Missouri)
- Pike's Peak Country (Colorado)
- Saginaw Cession (Michigan)
- Territory of Sagadahock (Maine)
- Trans-Mississippi
- Transylvania Colony (Kentucky)
- Waldo Patent (Maine)
- Washington District, North Carolina (Tennessee)
[edit] Iowa
- Black Hawk Purchase
- Dubuque's Claim
- Giard Grant
- Half-Breed Tract
- Honey Lands (disputed tract of land, Iowa-Missouri)
- Iowa District
- Keokuk's Reserve
- Neutral Ground (Iowa)
- Potawatomi Cession
- Sac and Fox Cession
- Sioux Cession
[edit] New York
- Central New York Military Tract (New York)
- The Holland Purchase (New York)
- The Mill Yard Tract (New York)
- The Morris Reserve (New York)
- Macomb's Purchase (New York)
- Phelps and Gorham Purchase (New York)
- The Triangle Tract (New York)
- The Purchase of New Jersey (New York)
[edit] Ohio
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
- 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
- Big Pasture
- Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip
- Cimarron Territory
- Greer County
- Indian Territory
- Neutral Strip, or No Man's Land
- Oklahoma Territory
- State of Sequoyah
- Unassigned Lands
[edit] Indian Reserves
- Cheyenne-Arapaho Reserve
- Commanche, Kiowa and Apache Reserve
- Iowa Reserve
- Kaw Reserve
- Kickapoo Reserve
- Osage Reserve
- Ponca and Otoe–Misouria Reserve
- Citizen Potawatomi and Absentee Shawnee Reserve
- Sac and Fox Reserve
- Tonkawa Reserve
- Wichita and Caddo Reserve
[edit] Pennsylvania
- Erie Triangle (Pennsylvania)
- The Walking Purchase (Pennsylvania)
- Welsh Tract (Pennsylvania)
[edit] Former organized territories
The following is a list of organized U.S. territories that have become states, in the order of the date organized.
- Northwest Territory (1789–1803)
- Southwest Territory (1790–1796)
- Mississippi Territory (1798–1817)
- Indiana Territory (1800–1816)
- Orleans Territory (1804–1812)
- Michigan Territory (1805–1837)
- Louisiana Territory (1805–1812), preceded by District of Louisiana
- Illinois Territory (1809–1818)
- Missouri Territory (1812–1821)
- Alabama Territory (1817–1819)
- Arkansas Territory (1819–1836)
- Florida Territory (1822–1845)
- Wisconsin Territory (1836–1848)
- Iowa Territory (1838–1846)
- Oregon Territory (1848–1859)
- Minnesota Territory (1849–1858)
- New Mexico Territory (1850–1912)
- Utah Territory (1850–1896)
- Washington Territory (1853–1889)
- Kansas Territory (1854–1861)
- Nebraska Territory (1854–1867)
- Colorado Territory (1861–1876)
- Nevada Territory (1861–1864)
- Dakota Territory (1861–1889)
- Arizona Territory (1863–1912)
- Idaho Territory (1863–1890)
- Montana Territory (1864–1889)
- Wyoming Territory (1868–1890)
- Oklahoma Territory (1890–1907), preceded, in part, by Indian Territory
- Hawaii Territory (1898–1959)
- Alaska Territory (1912–1959), preceded by Department of Alaska and District of Alaska
[edit] Possessions and overseas territories subsequently retroceded
- Panama Canal Zone
- Commonwealth of the Philippines
- Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
- Ryukyus
- Chamizal
- Rio Rico, Texas (Horcón Tract)
[edit] Independent nations turned states
[edit] Unrecognized or self-declared entities
- Conch Republic
- Kingdom of Beaver Island
- Great Republic of Rough and Ready
- Long Republic
- Nataqua Territory
- Nickajack
- Republic of California
- Republic of Indian Stream
- Republic of Madawaska
- Republic of South Carolina
- Republic of Vermont
- Republic of West Florida
- State of Deseret
- State of Franklin
- State of Jefferson
- State of Kanawha
- State of Sequoyah
- State of Superior
- State of Westmoreland
- Territory of Cimarron
- Territory of Jefferson
- Territory of McDonald
- Transoconee Republic
- Westsylvania
[edit] American Civil War-related regions
[edit] Nicknames
[edit] See also
- Political divisions of the United States
- United States territory
- List of regions of the United States
- List of U.S. states that were never territories
- European colonization of the Americas
- Reconstruction military districts
- List of extinct U.S. counties
[edit] External links
- Chronological List of Territories 1787-1890
- Official Name and Status History of the several States and U.S. Territories
- Indian Land Cessions in the United States, United States Digital Map Archives
- LOC: Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894, United States Serial Set, Number 4015
- United States Territorial Maps 1775-1920ro:Regiuni istorice ale Statelor Unite ale Americii
