---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 265"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "265"
heading: "Addition of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/265"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXVIII — Cumberland Gap National Historical Park"
---

# §265. Addition of lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) for [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to Cumberland Gap National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) the following described land and interests in land, located in Bell County, Kentucky: Provided, That appropriated funds may not be used to pay more than one-half the cost of such [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1).

Beginning at a concrete marker on the west boundary of Cumberland Gap National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and being on the south margin of Avondale Avenue in the city of Middlesboro, Kentucky, and also on the south bank of Davis Branch; thence along the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) boundary the following courses and distances;

South 24 degrees 50 minutes west, 196.79 feet; thence south 30 degrees 02 minutes west, 129.95 feet to a stake; thence south 12 degrees 22 minutes west, 31.82 feet; thence south 80 degrees 38 minutes west, 143.36 feet; thence south 88 degrees 04 minutes west, 100 feet; thence north 86 degrees 14 minutes west, 100 feet; thence north 80 degrees 33 minutes west, 100 feet; thence north 77 degrees 42 minutes west, 186.40 feet;

Thence north 82 degrees 51 minutes west, 271.55 feet; thence leaving the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) boundary and following along the south right-of-way of Clydesdale Avenue south 71 degrees 39 minutes west, 310 feet, more or less, to the north right-of-way of United States Highway 25E;

Thence along the said highway right-of-way south 82 degrees 09 minutes west, 317 feet, more or less, to its intersection with the north right-of-way of Clydesdale Avenue; thence along the north right-of-way of Clydesdale Avenue north 70 degrees 09 minutes east, 423 feet, more or less, to a point on the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) boundary;

Thence with the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) boundary the following courses and distances: south 86 degrees 39 minutes west, 261.44 feet; thence south 81 degrees 26 minutes west, 147.66 feet; thence north 6 degrees 55 minutes west, 49.23 feet; thence south 83 degrees 04 minutes west, 980 feet; thence north 6 degrees 55 minutes west, 135 feet, more or less, to a point in the middle of Little Yellow Creek;

Thence leaving the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) boundary and up the center of the meanders of Little Yellow Creek, 2,562 feet, more or less, to a point in the middle of Little Yellow Creek which is also a point in the middle of Davis Branch;

Thence leaving Little Yellow Creek and along the center of Davis Branch, 400 feet, more or less, to the south margin of Avondale Avenue; thence with the south right-of-way of Avondale Avenue south 55 degrees 44 minutes east, 5 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, said tract containing 9.0 acres, more or less.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–111, § 1, July 26, 1961, 75 Stat. 224.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act June 11, 1940, ch. 304, 54 Stat. 262, which comprises this subchapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Appropriations

Section 2 of Pub. L. 87–111 authorized to be appropriated such sums, but not more than $30,000, as were necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.