Wow, that's a good deal. I have a parcel in Montague County, Texas I'd like to subdivide and sell to retireeees. Here is the description, could you forward it to the GIS guys for subdivision for me.
"Parcel number A081918 depicted on an unrecorded plat dated January 13, 1984 and being part of the land conveyed for the use of The Chisholm Trail Land Association on January 13, 1984, such site being west of Illinois Bend and south of the Red River in Montague County, Texas."
> Wow, that's a good deal. I have a parcel in Montague County, Texas I'd like to subdivide and sell to retireeees. Here is the description, could you forward it to the GIS guys for subdivision for me.
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> "Parcel number A081918 depicted on an unrecorded plat dated January 13, 1984 and being part of the land conveyed for the use of The Chisholm Trail Land Association on January 13, 1984, such site being west of Illinois Bend and south of the Red River in Montague County, Texas."
Duane, your "client" is on the right track in looking at the rural, sparsely populated counties for land to GIS into a subdivision. I must tell you, however, that Montague County is a bit too well populated (about 19,000 residents at last count) and waaay to close to Oklahoma for the scheme to work. I suggest you advise him to plan on paying no more than twenty dollars per acre for his land and no more than five dollars per lot for the GISing. The whole idea is to keep lot prices low enough that people in New York and England will be tempted to charge them on a credit card, a cash deal.
Hey wait a minute! Don't I own this already...;-) 
J. Poitevent
Andy,
When I saw the Poitevent name, it started ringing bells here. Thanks for doing the research for me. 🙂
Very prominent family here in my Parish areas... major land owners, judges and politicians dating back to the 19th century. When doing research here, the Poitevent name goes for pages and pages on original parcels.
They probably made a fortune in cypress and then pine timber and shipped though the Pearl River to the Gulf Coast ports.
I have a tentative soccer game at a little soccer field at Poitevent park in Pearl River, LA next Friday evening.
We had developers here selling ranchette lots (10 acres) in Rio Linda and elsewhere to East Coasters circa 1900 too but on a smaller scale.
Buy a Suit, Get a Lot!
Was the marketing behind this priceless (? = worthless) Subdivision
The first plan is the town taking plan, as a watershed.
Here is the original plan
I wonder if Mr. Sparrow gave up to soon and just plain didn't try hard enough! 🙂
> > Wow, that's a good deal. I have a parcel in Montague County, Texas I'd like to subdivide and sell to retireeees. Here is the description, could you forward it to the GIS guys for subdivision for me.
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> > "Parcel number A081918 depicted on an unrecorded plat dated January 13, 1984 and being part of the land conveyed for the use of The Chisholm Trail Land Association on January 13, 1984, such site being west of Illinois Bend and south of the Red River in Montague County, Texas."
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> Duane, your "client" is on the right track in looking at the rural, sparsely populated counties for land to GIS into a subdivision. I must tell you, however, that Montague County is a bit too well populated (about 19,000 residents at last count) and waaay to close to Oklahoma for the scheme to work. I suggest you advise him to plan on paying no more than twenty dollars per acre for his land and no more than five dollars per lot for the GISing. The whole idea is to keep lot prices low enough that people in New York and England will be tempted to charge them on a credit card, a cash deal.
Now Kent....That scheme ought to work just fine being close to Oklahoma. You know that Okies are gullible. You give them too much credit. :snarky:
The rest of the free world
Q.Who would put a lot corner out in a road?
A.The rest of the free world would put block corners out there
1910 subdivision plat
1996 survey:
(Oregon Ave. subsequently renamed "Morrill Rd. &
plat vacated north of Shasta Rd. in 1918)
1996 monument table:
monument table detail:
