Putting together a map to start looking for monuments to survey a 7 Ac. parcel.
East of the parcel are some of those south 400', west 260', north 400', east 260' type of descriptions. All in a patchwork pattern, some tied to a center 1/4, some tied to the NE of the SE4NW4 with west 400', south 202', west 94' to the POB type of beginnings.
Laying them out in their raw format causes a mess of overlaps and gaps. I was going to start with printing out the GIS map and use the owner names shown on it to get started at the courthouse, but it the county server was down,,,,,,,so........I used an old GIS property map (which reflected the gaps and overlaps) I had with names going back to 2006,,,,,,,, went to the courthouse and got all the deeds and started to put together my map.
Pushing the deeds around so they made sense and using the photo's to confirm I made a map I thought made sense to what would be found on the ground so we can look for monuments.
Now the GIS is back up........and what do you know.....their new version of the property map and mine look exactly alike.....
Clearly we are thinking alike, now it's time to find out if all the assumptions are right or wrong;-)
Got to give it to those guys they are really digging in to spend the time to look through that mess and get it somewhat organized..
About 20 years ago I was tasked with what seemed like a simple little job in a county seat town a couple of counties away. The client owned a tract and simply wished to purchase a 20-foot strip from his neighbor. They could have sort of done it without a survey, just wrote up something and recorded it. But, lucky me, I get a chance to make a few dollars.
It turned out that every parcel in an entire quarter section of "city" layout was based on numerical distances starting from at least three of the corners of that quarter section. The tract I was doing was described something like: A tract beginning 994 feet north and 635 feet west of the southeast corner of the southeast quarter of section 20, township 20 south, range 20 east; thence west 75 feet; thence north 150 feet; thence east 75 feet; thence south 150 feet to point of beginning. In the next block to the north everything was so far west and so far south of the northeast corner of the same quarter section. The jigsaw puzzle worked great based on all nearby property descriptions. The problem was that the quarter section was not perfectly square and it wasn't exactly 2640 by 2640. The saving thing was that there were survey bars all over the place that agreed with each other.
Learned from some nosy neighbors that all heck had broke loose a short distance from there where there was a rather large tract that bordered something like 19 other properties. Joe Blow from Timbuktu had ridden in on his white charger, found the corners of the quarter section, worked his magic and began setting new corners based on his mathemagic and ignoring all existing bars, then rode out again never to be seen again-----except in court.
Joe Blow from Timbuktu had ridden in on his white charger, found the corners of the quarter section, worked his magic and began setting new corners based on his mathemagic and ignoring all existing bars, then rode out again never to be seen again-----except in court
Oh no!!!!!
It would look like the 2006 version of the GIS map if I did that. the new version has some "common sense" applied to it, actually I'm not surveying those parcels, just need to get my east line to line up with those parcels west lines. Much easier, LOL!!
The fun thing about those deeds is some reference the C1/4: there are two existing monuments for it, one destroyed monument and of course the math center which makes a fourth one....... well .... four that I know of.