I see you are in Minnesota. You probably need a surveyor licensed in Minnesota to check the title history on both parcels and get it right. The way the 5 acres was separated from some larger tract in the past will influence how future descriptions are written. The half and quarter descriptions don't often get down to 5 acres, and the fact that you have a 330 ft distance rather than a fraction complicates it.
Good luck, but my advice is to at least stop in and chat with a local licensed surveyor, what you propose may or may not be allowed, and at least you can find out what the process is.?ÿ
I don't like the two descriptions you reference, they aren't the way to do this, it's the classic case of a distance vs a fraction, it will technically never work, although often assumptions will be applied by future retracers to "clean it up". Much better to follow the chain of title and use it to guide the description process.?ÿ
Had to do a double-take because there is McCleod, Texas in eastern part of Cass County
The Appraisial Distric office, they take amounts of land measured from Google Earth and other aerial sources to use for Agricultural and Timber exemptions and do not require any written property description for exemptions.
That is how things differ from state to state and from rural to metro areas.
