Section 15, 6.4Ac. and terminates at a point at the NE corner of 22. I've been trying to walk my client through it and she was having an awful time accepting it.
Can't blame her; it looks kinda like this:
The line common to 15 and 22 is quite exaggerated to show the configuration the angle is 57 minutes.:-)
did she buy it on ebay?
Ha, no but from what I understand the 6.4 acres cost is about $500000. So..........
How about Section 14 and others
So what is the story that goes with this? Are some sections missing entirely?
> Ha, no but from what I understand the 6.4 acres cost is about $500000. So..........
divorce? 😉
Haha, no, not buying the land, the cost is just a payment for the right to lease the what's under it. The first time I heard the numbers involved I made the person repeat it several times. :-O
So anyhoo...... the areas are kinda important.....
How about Section 14 and others
It's along a state line, why they created the sliver sections instead of expanding the ones to the south......who knows. :-S
The plat looks like this, not much help really, but the notes are clear.
How about Section 14 and others
I can live with that explanation, but as you say, it would have made far more sense to expand the sections to the south a bit rather than have such a mess.
How about Section 14 and others
Hmm. It kind of looks like the state line was "located" after the original subdivision. In my mind, that would be the only logical reason to not expand the southerly sections, if the northerly ones were established already.
~Raybies
p.s. Keep us updated on this one, if you find anything further.
How about Section 14 and others
They must have felt that they didn't have the authority to throw the excess into the section as though they were closing on a township line. Similar to this situation--this is Twp. 115N., R. 20W of the 5th P.M., closing from the south onto Twp. 27N, R. 23W of the 4th P.M. The draftsman evidently couldn't figure out how to get the number 12 into the 20-ac. section.
How about Section 14 and others
It kind of looks like the state line was "located" after the original subdivision
The state line was in place; they for some reason decided to create the thin section, so it's been that way from the start. and they also decided to call it Lot 1. So sections 15,16,17, 18 are all one lot sections.
How about Section 14 and others
This reminds me of the quote from Ira Cook, the GLO surveyor of thin sections along the Iowa-Minnesota border, who had the privilege of informing a squatter his cultivated field was in two states, four townships, and six sections.
(Government Surveying in Early Iowa, Annals of Iowa, 3rd series, vol 2, Jan 1897)