---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 217b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "217b"
heading: "Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/217b"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park"
---

# §217b. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

- (a) **Designation—** The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Kentucky shall be known and designated as the “Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3)”.
- (b) **References—** Any reference in a law, [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1), regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site shall be deemed to be a reference to the “Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3)”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7114, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1202.)