Nebraska has some very small sections along the northern state line with South Dakota. Take a look at Section 13 in this plat.
ftp://ftp.sso.state.ne.us/maps/gloc/1510.pdf
It would be interesting to see the plat(s) for the South Dakota side of the line.
I was thinking the same. Does the township continue and the state line just cut through it? It appears the state line was run prior to the townships so does South Dakota have a 35-21 6th also?
In this area, South Dakota is on the 5th Principal Meridian, whereas Nebraska is on the 6th Principal Meridian. Futher west the 6th PM does go into South Dakota.
At the risk of sounding like an uninitiated colonial states surveyor (which, in fact, I am) why wouldn't that narrow strip between the northern tier of full standard sections simply been included with those sections abutting it to the south?
I suppose there must have been some rule of construction regrading the delineation of the public lands surveys contrary to idea but that would seem more logical than having that strip that is as it appear to me roughly 100 feet wide running all along that platted area.
Please don't shoot. I've already admitted and displayed my ignorance on the subject...
At the risk of sounding like an uninitiated colonial states surveyor (which, in fact, I am) why wouldn't that narrow strip between the northern tier of full standard sections simply been included with those sections abutting it to the south?
LOL; well I've been asking that very question for years and I've got to tell you that sometimes those Sections were extended. But I've also got a Section 15 that is zero feet wide on the east side and just over 100' on the west: why not extend Section 22?....
Iowa has some similarly small sections at its border with Minnesota. Early surveyor Ira Cook wrote in his memoirs about an place where he was running lines for the north-most tier of townships of Iowa and came on a squatter.
He found the man's cultivated field to be in two states, four townships, and six sections.
(Government Surveying in Early Iowa, Annals of Iowa, 3rd series, vol 2, Jan 1897)
I dunno the answer to that one...except that I suspect that it all boils down to the Special Instructions unique to each Contract.
Here's one from the Utah-Colorado Border, wherein they extended the East Tier of Sections to the State Line:
Loyal
I don't know for sure when that area of SD was surveyed under the 5th PM, but perhaps the Surveyor General at the time thought those sections would be later extended into South Dakota under the 6th PM.
The instructions seen to have not been consistent in this regard. My wife's family has some land just south of the first correction line in Iowa, and there the GLO made "Government Lots" that were typically 53 acres instead of 40 acre quarter-quarter sections to use up the excess.
> It would be interesting to see the plat(s) for the South Dakota side of the line.
I went looking in the GLO data base. It couldn't find the rest of the section in SD.
Maybe I wasn't talking to it sweetly enough.
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See Jerry's post of Tuesday, January 04, 2011, 10:07
Missouri grew some really big ones along the West side of the State. Kansas went with the smaller kind hitting that same line 40 or more years later.