Cherokee Strip and Cherokee Outlet have often been used interchangeably, but they were different lands. The Cherokee Outlet was the area given to the Cherokees in partial trade for their homelands to serve as an outlet to the west. It was 57 miles wide and 226 miles long, and it was opened to homesteaders by land run on September 16, 1893. The Cherokee Strip resulted from surveying errors in 1837, when the Outlet was laid out, and in 1854, when the southern boundary of Kansas was surveyed. A small strip of land overlapped, with both Kansas and the Cherokees claiming it. An agreement was reached in 1866, and by treaty the land was ceded to the United States and became part of the State of Kansas. The Cherokee Strip was 2.46 miles wide. It began 25 miles west of the Kansas-Missouri state line and ran the length of the Cherokee Outlet. Homesteaders in Kansas who lived near the strip and did not have 160 acres were allowed to fill out their claims with these acreages.