The lowest dollar properties are always the most expensive

It never fails.  Heard another story today.

A town came into existence 150 years ago.  The population grew enough that a US highway ran beside it.  Now, the town has a population of less than 100 brave souls.  If any property sells, it doesn't cost very much.  The town was laid out parallel to a railroad track and the highway runs at a different angle from the section line. 

The firm currently working on a survey is going nuts. Technically, the streets are a County responsility, as well as an odd tract that is a wedge between the town plat and the section line.  The firm did all of the standard research and discovered a single survey had been filed over 50 years ago.  They worked off of it and discovered that it fit the physical evidence over a large area of the town.  An issue they found was that someone had done some surveying for the highway and set a new monument for the section corner.  That was over 20 feet from the existing monument that fit with the physical evidence and prior highway records.

They had searched for far too long in search of anything that might be found in the field for unrecorded work.  Somehow they discovered there had been two other surveys done in the past 50 years.  When they got there hands on them they learned both surveyors had based their work on the erroneous section corner monument.  They went back to the site and found bars over 20 feet from where they had been looking.  Using those bars throws off everything in the platted area.

The guy who set the erroneous section corner and both surveyors since then who blindly followed him all live in Timbuktu or Capistrano and may never pass through the little town ever again.  Meanwhile, the local surveyors are stuck with the liability of filing a contrary survey that is "correct" and receiving a pittance for their time and effort.