Retracing BLM metes & bounds
I haven’t had to do this before since it doesn’t happen very often where I work. The BLM came in (in the 1960’s) and surveyed a metes and bounds tract – one continuous irregular boundary meandering through 4 quarters in 4 different sections). Their plat has a line table like the one shown below, and the boundary goes on and off established section lines at some points. We have recovered the section & quarter corner monuments they set from this survey but can’t find the other monuments that meander around the swamps. How do you typically draw this up, when the bearings are to the nearest minute? I assume the distances are pretty accurate, since they’re listed to the nearest 0.001 chains. There must be some kind of adjustment to run on their traverse lines, but I don’t know what the “recommended” method is.
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