---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 119a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "119a"
heading: "Boundaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/119a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XIII — Petrified Forest National Park"
---

# §119a. Boundaries


The Petrified Forest National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), authorized to be established pursuant to [section 119 of this title](/usc/16/119.md), shall comprise the following described lands:

gila and salt river meridian

Township 20 north, range 23 east: Sections [1](/usc/16/1.md), [2](/usc/16/2.md), [3](/usc/16/3.md), 10, [11](/usc/16/11.md), [12](/usc/16/12.md), [13](/usc/16/13.md), [14](/usc/16/14.md), [15](/usc/16/15.md), [22](/usc/16/22.md), [23](/usc/16/23.md), [24](/usc/16/24.md), [25](/usc/16/25.md), [26](/usc/16/26.md), 27, [34](/usc/16/34.md), [35](/usc/16/35.md), [36](/usc/16/36.md), all.

Township 20 north, range 24 east: All.

Township 20 north, range 25 east: Sections [4](/usc/16/4.md), [5](/usc/16/5.md), [6](/usc/16/6.md), [7](/usc/16/7.md), [8](/usc/16/8.md), [9](/usc/16/9.md), [16](/usc/16/16.md), [17](/usc/16/17.md), [18](/usc/16/18.md), all.

Township 19 north, range 23 east: Sections [1](/usc/16/1.md), [2](/usc/16/2.md), [3](/usc/16/3.md), 10, [11](/usc/16/11.md), [12](/usc/16/12.md), [13](/usc/16/13.md), [14](/usc/16/14.md), [15](/usc/16/15.md), all.

Township 19 north, range 24 east: Sections [2](/usc/16/2.md), [3](/usc/16/3.md), [4](/usc/16/4.md), [5](/usc/16/5.md), [6](/usc/16/6.md), [7](/usc/16/7.md), [8](/usc/16/8.md), [9](/usc/16/9.md), 10, all; [section 11](/usc/16/11.md), northwest quarter and north half northeast quarter; sections [16](/usc/16/16.md), [17](/usc/16/17.md), [18](/usc/16/18.md), [21](/usc/16/21.md), 28, [33](/usc/16/33.md), all.

Township 18 north, range 24 east: Sections [4](/usc/16/4.md), [9](/usc/16/9.md), all; section 10, southwest quarter; sections [13](/usc/16/13.md), [14](/usc/16/14.md), [15](/usc/16/15.md), [16](/usc/16/16.md), [21](/usc/16/21.md), [22](/usc/16/22.md), [23](/usc/16/23.md), [24](/usc/16/24.md), [25](/usc/16/25.md), [26](/usc/16/26.md), 27, 28, [33](/usc/16/33.md), [34](/usc/16/34.md), [35](/usc/16/35.md), [36](/usc/16/36.md), all.

Township 17 north, range 24 east: Sections [2](/usc/16/2.md), [11](/usc/16/11.md), [14](/usc/16/14.md), [23](/usc/16/23.md), [26](/usc/16/26.md), west halves; sections [3](/usc/16/3.md), [4](/usc/16/4.md), [5](/usc/16/5.md), [6](/usc/16/6.md), [7](/usc/16/7.md), [8](/usc/16/8.md), [9](/usc/16/9.md), 10, [15](/usc/16/15.md), [16](/usc/16/16.md), [17](/usc/16/17.md), [18](/usc/16/18.md), 19, 20, [21](/usc/16/21.md), [22](/usc/16/22.md), 27, 28, 29, [30](/usc/16/30.md), [31](/usc/16/31.md), [32](/usc/16/32.md), [33](/usc/16/33.md), all.

Township 17 north, range 23 east: Sections [34](/usc/16/34.md), [35](/usc/16/35.md), [36](/usc/16/36.md), all.

Township 16 north, range 24 east: Sections [3](/usc/16/3.md) and 10, west halves; sections [4](/usc/16/4.md), [5](/usc/16/5.md), [6](/usc/16/6.md), [7](/usc/16/7.md), [8](/usc/16/8.md), [9](/usc/16/9.md), all.

Township 16 north, range 23 east: Sections [1](/usc/16/1.md), [2](/usc/16/2.md), [11](/usc/16/11.md), [12](/usc/16/12.md), all; sections [3](/usc/16/3.md), 10, east halves.

Township 19 north, range 24 east: the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–358, § 2, Mar. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 69; Pub. L. 99–250, § 1, Feb. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 13.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–250 inserted “Township 19 north, range 24 east: the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1986 Amendment

Pub. L. 99–250, § 2, Feb. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 13, provided that: “The provisions of this Act [amending this section] shall not take effect until the Secretary of the Interior determines that fee simple title to the property described in section 1 has vested in the United States. Such determination of the Secretary shall be published in the Federal Register.”