Comparison of Record Data by Table

Some of the many oddities of the work that an engineer did in platting and replatting a tract of land back in the early 1950's include what are plainly the work of his drafting room. One line of the tract subdivided ran along a county road and had this strange history of directions reported for it:

The bearing reported in (R1) was what was determined by the work of a very good local surveyor in 1937. Then in 1950 when the tract surveyed in 1937 and conveyed using a metes and bounds description from that survey was combined with other tracts, evidently purely by office survey methods to make a subdivision plat, the direction was miscopied by the units digit of the degrees and tens digit of the minutes getting reversed.

This did not apparently bother the engineer because the calculations were made in 1950 using the incorrectly copied bearing. Fine.

But then, three years later when the same land covered by the 1950 plat was resubdivided, the erroneous bearing for that line on the 1950 plat morphed yet again, from N28-39E to N22-39E.

The whole freakish history of that blunder is readily apparent when seen in sequence in a table.

The 181.45 ft. discrepancy is from yet another misadventure of that same engineering office: laying out a subdivision from a point where the edge of a lake at about 681 ft. elevation intersected the line of the road, as if it were essentially the same as where the 670 ft. elevation contour (the actual boundary of the tract) would intersect the same road line.