Loyal, post: 403852, member: 228 wrote: 98 Exterior Boundary Corners (MOST of which are Mineral Survey Related)
What exactly are those?
1200 acres!!...and I get excited over 5 acres
Joe the Surveyor, post: 404267, member: 118 wrote: What exactly are those?
1200 acres!!...and I get excited over 5 acres
I hear ya. We do tons of parcels less than 2 acres here as there just aren't that many large tracts left. That said, we are just finishing up a 1150 acre conservation easement survey. Legal is 10 pages long....about 9.5 miles of perimeter.
Props to the people putting it in conservation, they could have made a boat load subdiving it but their family has been on the land since the 1770s.
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Paul D, post: 404270, member: 323 wrote: I hear ya. We do tons of parcels less than 2 acres here as there just aren't that many large tracts left. That said, we are just finishing up a 1150 acre conservation easement survey. Legal is 10 pages long....about 9.5 miles of perimeter.
Props to the people putting it in conservation, they could have made a boat load subdiving it but their family has been on the land since the 1770s.
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We did 1200 acres a while back in Ohio. It was a lot of work, but it sure was a lot easier piece of ground than yours.
Holy moly! If you could project that boundary outline up into the night time sky try to imagine the names the ancients might have placed on it. Instead of Orion or Big Dipper it would be more like Sparticus, Lazy Buzzard or Starving Mammoth.
Here in Oklahoma I've done several 1200+ acres surveys that had only 12 (and sometimes less) corners. One I remember you could see almost all the corners from one slight hill in the middle.
I see a horsie bucking a rider off!
:laughing:
That is the shape of large tracts around here too.
They are either what is left of an estate or the beginning of a new one.
That's a good looking plat. Just out of curiosity, How does one charge for that large of a project? I typically run the footage vs. time. What say you?
All you have to do, is tie in to three different adjoiner's property corners that match to with 15cm and run in the math. With a good rtk receiver, you can have that done in a few days.
We're currently doing 5800 acre ALTA (96 individual parcels, 40 of which had to have new legals). It's a large quarry/cement plant so not too much feature collection, but a lot of corners to look for since most any inside quarry zones are long gone. Southwest Ohio so no real terrain issues. It's been a fun project to be involved in.
A career highlight for me was a 12,000 acre boundary survey in Douglas Wyoming. Covered parts of 3 townships.
Joe the Surveyor, post: 404267, member: 118 wrote: What exactly are those?
1200 acres!!...and I get excited over 5 acres
Good question, and one that could require a LOT of explanation.
Short (Reader's Digest" version:
Mineral Surveys (in the context of this project), are Federal Authority Surveys of Mining Claims performed by Deputy U.S. Mineral Surveyors under the direction of the Surveyor General of Utah. These Surveys, and the Monuments marking the Corners thereof, are the basis for U.S. Patents which conveyed both the surface and mineral estates to the claimants. The actual Patent Document contains an abbreviated copy of the Field Notes of the Survey, INCLUDING descriptions of each Corner Monument. In this case, ALL of the Original Monuments were 4"x4"x4' Aspen or Pine Posts.
See; Act of April 28th. 1904 and/or 30 USC Sec.34
"The said monuments shall at all times constitute the highest authority as to what land was patented, and in case of any conflict between the said monuments of such patented claims and the descriptions of said claims in the patents issued therefore the monuments on the ground shall govern, and erroneous or inconsistent descriptions or calls in the patent descriptions shall give way thereto."
Loyal