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Parcel created by ROW vacation
So there’s this parcel …
Somewhere on a two lane state highway that was laid out in the 1930s, there is a parcel. It was created by vacation when the DOT straightened the road to reduce accidents and did some grading to make it easier for trucks to climb the hill with chains on. It consists of the two curves that were straightened with the new road alignment, and is roughly 1000 feet long, ranging from asymptotically narrow in the middle (old and new ROW lines touch) to 70-80′ wide at the widest two points.The DOT seems to have kept some of the old right of way for equipment parking, and some of the nearby adjoiners seem to have claimed in the record what was vacated. This one parcel, though, not claimed by adjoiners. Or maybe it was and for some reason they didn’t pay the taxes on it, and it got foreclosed by the county and sold at the tax auction. Whoever bought it let the same thing happen, now it is for sale again.
It would be a swell winter RV parking spot, being next to and having access to a regularly snowplowed highway. The old road is a cut, and hidden from the new road. Too narrow to build on, possibility of electricity but not a well. Zoned agricultural.
It’s fenced to the road, maybe the adjoiners think they own it? Despite a survey in 2000 showing the separate parcel. If I buy it and show up and fence those delightful surveyor-created curves and try to enjoy my ironically abstractly-created parcel, I’m wondering what kind of unwritten rights or interest the adjoiners have. Is it a convenience fence to keep their cows out of the highway or is it a boundary? The risk would be to buy it from the County and then have the neighbors get to waving shotguns about it.
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