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Harper's Index free land
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: atr-ga List Price: $3.00 |
Posted:
21 Apr 2005 18:53 PDT
Expires: 21 May 2005 18:53 PDT Question ID: 512525 |
According to Harper's Magazine, May 2005 edition, Page 11 - the Harper's Index, there are at least 18 midwestern towns offering free land to new residents. I located 8 of them in Kansas, an easy find through Gooogle. Please locate for me the other 10... Thanks! |
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Re: Harper's Index free land
From: jab-ga on 22 Apr 2005 10:25 PDT |
Hello, atr: This question was asked last year: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=320039. It mentions the Kansas towns that you already know about; lots of information about the pros and cons of moving to the rural Midwest. Here's a more recent USA Today article about this phenomenon: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-02-08-land-cover_x.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno I've found just two more that are not in Kansas: Kenesaw, Nebraska and Crosby, North Dakota. There are some others in Nebraska mentioned under "hometown comptetiveness" but the sites I've read on line so far don't specifically mention free land, just that they are trying to persuade people to move there: Ord, David City, Mullen, and Hyannis. Wikipedia has entries for each state and they specify these which have an entry about "rural flight" - Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Oklahoma: i.e. "Rural flight Oklahoma, in common with five other Mid-West states (Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa), is feeling the brunt of falling populations. 89% of the total number of cities in those states have fewer than 3000 people; hundreds have fewer than than 1000. Between 1996 and 2004 almost half a million people, nearly half with college degrees, left the six states. "Rural flight" has led to offers of free land and tax breaks as enticements to newcomers in some of these states. The effects of rural flight in Oklahoma have mostly been felt in Western Oklahoma (those areas west of I-35)." No specific towns are mentioned in the Wikipedia entries. I'll keep looking. |
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Re: Harper's Index free land
From: pykiet-ga on 04 Apr 2006 22:53 PDT |
Have you tried this, there is a commercial link as well. http://www.kansasfreeland.com/ The city of Harper KS is working on theirs as well, however it is not posted. If you are interested I can let you know when it does. Not sure what your interest is in the land info, if it is to build or pass to someone wanting to build make sure they are aware of NRP, not all communities have this. This is a prorated tax on the property over 10 years. Here is the link to Harper County, KS and what they have in place. About 2/3 down is the schedule for commercial and residential. Don't be overwhelmed by all of the print. Bottom line it is a good deal especially if you incur specials on your property to offset a new development, etc. http://harpercountyks.gov/index.asp?NID=130 Hope this helps. |
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