Commissioner Buckingham Encourages Texans to Utilize the Texas Beach Watch Program During 2025 Beach Season
Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., encourages Texans to utilize the General Land Office’s (GLO) Texas Beach Watch website during the 2025 Beach Season. As Texas residents and people from across the country plan their visits to the Texas coast for summer vacation, the GLO’s Beach Watch program continues to provide weekly updates on beach water quality. Read More
Commissioner Dawn Buckingham Announces $45 Million in Newly Approved Disaster Recovery Reallocation Program (DRRP) Projects
Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced the Texas General Land Office (GLO) approved $45,164,822 in Disaster Recovery Reallocation Program (DRRP) funds for affordable multifamily housing projects in Cameron, Galveston, Harris, Hidalgo and Jefferson counties as well as street improvements in Liberty County. DRRP is designed to utilize de-obligated and unutilized Community Development Block Grant for Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds in communities with outstanding unmet needs. Read More
Commissioner Buckingham Celebrates Significant Construction Milestone of Texas Cavaliers Alamo Education Center
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., gathered with local officials this week to celebrate the Topping Out Ceremony for the Texas Cavaliers Education Center, a state-of-the-art facility that promises every Texas schoolchild, no matter where they come from, will have a place to interact personally with the story of Texas. Read More
Texas GLO Posts 2024 Disasters Action Plan for Public Comment, Announces Virtual Public Hearings
Today the Texas General Land Office (GLO) posted the State of Texas 2024 Disasters Action Plan for $555,687,000 in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds for public comment. These funds were allocated to Texas by the U.S. Read More
Land Commissioner Buckingham Announces “Alamo Defenders Heritage Map of Texas” Available for Pre-Order
Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced her new Commissioner's Map: Alamo Defenders Heritage Map of Texas is available for pre-order. Commissioner Buckingham was honored to commission this map, which reveres the brave Alamo Defenders who sacrificed their lives for freedom. Read More
Commissioner Buckingham Announces the Winners and Finalists of the 2025 Save Texas History Essay Contest
Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D. is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of the 2025 Save Texas History Essay Contest, sponsored by the Texas General Land Office's Save Texas History Program. More than 700 fourth and seventh-grade students from across the state wrote about any historical person, event, place, group, or cultural tradition, however big or small, that helped shape Texas. Read More
Voices of Veterans: SP5 George Padilla Shares His Story of Service in the U.S. Army During the Vietnam War
Today, Texas Land Commissioner and Veterans Land Board (VLB) Chairwoman Dawn Buckingham, M.D., is proud to introduce the next installment of the series highlighting the VLB's Voices of Veterans oral history program. Read More
Join Us For An Unaccompanied Veteran Burial At The Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery
On Tuesday, May 13th at 11:00 a.m. sharp, the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery will conduct an Unaccompanied Veteran Burial for U.S. Army Veteran Marcus Lee Hager Jr. Read More
Commissioner Buckingham Announces Pre-Sale of 'Texas Takes Shape,' a Historical Map Book of Texas History
Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., is pleased to announce the pre-sale of the General Land Office’s (GLO) book, Texas Takes Shape, a comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas, which dates back to the sixteenth century. Read More
Commissioner Dawn Buckingham Announces $45 Million in Newly Approved Regional Mitigation Program Projects
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced that the Texas General Land Office (GLO) approved $45,027,000 in regional mitigation funds to improve critical infrastructure, including roads, drainage, water detention, and sewer systems in Fayette and Nueces counties. Read More