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ROW Changes Over Time vs Property Corners
As you go back in time on property along a county road where the easement is not owned by the county but goes through a property, lots that align next to the county road will have deeds that read 30 ft ROW and over time the county changed to a 50 ft ROW. Surveyors will commonly use the current ROW width as they stake out the deed and spend little to no time doing research as a deed stake out only is not a retracement survey. Obviously property owners dont just “get” an extra ten feet of land from the senior property they were subdivided from. Surveyors see the length of a line from when the ROW was 30 ft and make it ten feet longer making a new corner or even better the famous “pincushion” corner although consumers are “led” to believe that such a survey is what they own as more land is lost from the senior property each time the ROW is increased. If a property line distance was based on a 30ft ROW and it is changed to 50 ft of ROW, is it correct that the actual ownership line should be or become or remains as ten feet shorter?? The dates of change should be provable through the road docket records of the county.
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