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Ideally the same quarter corner, two bars 15 feet apart, same survey firm
How often do you encounter such corners? This is on the edge of the largest city around. Future development be damned, just make it work! One bar is on the center line of the street. The other bar is 15 feet away at a 90. Surveys and corner reports filed per Statute.
As this is not my first rodeo, I have become a bit numb to such stupidity. I’ve seen two section corners about 30 feet a part on about the same alignment of what was a US highway. I’ve seen two quarter corners about 28 feet apart based on how the original settlers laid out their own fences and tree rows. I’ve seen two quarter corners about 75 feet apart based on early surveys by the first County Surveyor of the section to the east and the section to the west. Sadly, I have witnessed too many cases of the current surveyor applying straight line and half (or prorated distance) per THE BOOK and ignoring the evidence that calls for a much more agreeable location for many landowners in adjoining sections.
You need not worry about micrometers, decimal places, StarNet, and other such precision supporters, when the study of the history of monuments found AND not found is essential. In the first instance cited above, The same surveying firm set one of the monuments first and then set the second fully knowing it was in disagreement with their first work.
- This discussion was modified 3 months ago by holy-cow.
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