Here is one of those things that you scratch your head over. The border between Nebraska and South Dakota was established on 43å¡ Latitude in 1874 with mileposts set. When the surveys in Nebraska advanced from the south in 1875 (T35N R20W in the example) to meet the state line, the GLO instructed the deputies to run and terminate the north-south subdivision lines at 80.00 chains as usual instead of placing the excess into the same section.
In the image, the NE and NW corners of Sec. 22 are 0.95 chains south of the state line. Additional monuments were placed on the state line for the NE and NW corners of Section 15 (Fractional lots 1 - 4). The entire Section 15 therefore contains 7.60 acres. This occurs completely across the state.
J. Penry, post: 330868, member: 321 wrote: Here is one of those things that you scratch your head over. The border between Nebraska and South Dakota was established on 43å¡ Latitude in 1874 with mileposts set. When the surveys in Nebraska advanced from the south in 1875 (T35N R20W in the example) to meet the state line, the GLO instructed the deputies to run and terminate the north-south subdivision lines at 80.00 chains as usual instead of placing the excess into the same section.
In the image below, the NE and NW corners of Sec. 22 are 0.95 chains south of the state line. Additional monuments were placed on the state line for the NE and NW corners of Section 15 (Fractional lots 1 - 4). The entire Section 15 therefore contains 7.60 acres. This occurs completely across the state line.
I've got some of those along the Mt Wyo border.
Why not just lot the section to the south?
If the last line exceeded 80 chains it got a sliver section.
There must have been some rule about terminating fractional townships. If the state line had instead been an interior standard parallel or township line, sections 1 - 6 could have easily exceeded 80 chains and often did to close upon the line. 40.00 + 20.00 + excess.
I'm reminded of the quote from a surveyor working along the Iowa-Minnesota border with a similar situation.
"The section was only about two or three chains wide ... One day in running up one of my range lines I struck a man's farm. It was partly in Iowa and partly in Minnesota. When I was through with running my lines, his cultivated land was situated in two states, four townships, and six sections."
My wife's family has land just south of a correction line and the sections were lotted, with the northerly lots being about 53 or 56 acres.
