Chains plus a faction part

2054.8??????

I came up with 2054.58'. Are all chain measurements the same? I used 66' for a chain.

And which faction are we dealing with, the international chain carriers? 🙂

Kris Morgan, post: 324648, member: 29 wrote: 2054.8??????

Can't just smell those basalt stones like I use too. Here is the next distance call, "0.07 3/5 chains to the right bank of the Willamette River"

I get 2033 feet and 5.02 feet. But i suspect we are not interpreting something right. Can you post the actual document?

The surveyor is using a chain with 100 8-inch links. He's pulling 30 chains, 80 and 1/3 links in the first distance and 7 and 3/5 links in the second. The fractional parts of the link are just estimates I'd imagine. Pretty easy to estimate a 3rd or 5th of a link.

I vote with JBS and Vern. Calculator before rounding says 2033.020 and 5.016

I actually saw an antique "engineer's" chain today. The links were 1 ft long.

vern, post: 324665, member: 3436 wrote: I get 2033 feet and 5.02 feet. But i suspect we are not interpreting something right. Can you post the actual document?

The Deed in question:

I'm with Vern on this one.

Euclid, post: 324683, member: 10127 wrote: I actually saw an antique "engineer's" chain today. The links were 1 ft long.

We had 100 link "chains" and 100 foot "chains".
To confuse, a Chain was/ still is 66', 20.1168 metres.
But 100 feet is just that, and we surveyed rural areas in links with towns in feet, but often a combination. Sounds confusing perhaps but not here.
However I've discovered errors in earlier surveys where it seemed obvious they'd surveyed with a foot chain and converted all to links. (Or vice versa)
I digress. Might get "Ignored" :whistle:
More digression. I see we now have categories of emoticons.

I am going with the fractional part of one link.

Types of field measurements vary too much, I would tend to use the calls as a guide. In no particular order:

11.175 chains = 737.55'
30.80 1/3 chains = 30.803 chains = 2032.00'
0.07 3/5 chains = 0.076 chains = 5.02'

then you have 2 ties to one point
.18 chains = 11.88'
149.5 links = 1.495 chains = 98.67'

and then the closing call
40.00 chains
which I doubt was ever measured in the field.

My first assumption in reviewing the deed is that the surveyor??? never ran any line in the field, instead taking all calls from adjacent parcels. Keeping that in mind there is most likely no single basis of bearings for this description.

Believe little, search far and wide.

Paul in PA

I agree the surveyor may not have ran the complete description and the closure issues leads one to that conclusion. Thanks to all that offered input.