I was looking for corners on a bluff on the Ohio River yesterday and found this gem.?ÿ Inside, there is a 1" pipe, referenced by a t-post with a solar light on it, then a dry stacked rock pillar around it.?ÿ This is pretty deep into no-mans-land where occupation is never going to be obvious and I may be the last person to see this thing for the next twenty years.?ÿ The bluff is on the outside of a big curve in the river and there are pretty big recent slides on the bluff as the river sends all the dirt to New Orleans a little at time.?ÿ I expect some major movement to the tune of 5-10 feet over the next decade with this monument.
How did it check out?
It's there, has been well taken care of, and what were your observations compared to the office calculations/recovered GPS coordinates?
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That's awesome
Were you able to find the pedigree of this monument???
Great thanks are due to one or more surveyors and/or other people for keeping this monument in an easily found state.
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ It was definitely not put up by a surveyor.?ÿ That is just not done around here.?ÿ The landowner had put a t-post at each of his back corners with matching solar lights (could even find the corners in the dark) but had only gotten around to building one of the rock pillars so far.?ÿ Pedigree of monuments is as rare as hens teeth in this non-recording state.?ÿ I am working off of three recorded plats that mostly fit together.?ÿ North-South I've got about 11 feet of slop and East-West (direction of slip) there is about 7'.?ÿ An old timer said the original subdivider wanted to make sure everybody got at least what was coming to them so when he sold off 100', he would measure off 110' to be sure.?ÿ That does not seem to be the case, but an interesting bit of parole evidence.?ÿ By my early resolution of the boundary, I believe the rock pillar is off calculated corners by about 7' East-West.?ÿ It is not my corner and my retracement plat will not get recorded so I hope the next guy that finds my caps will call and ask for my plat.?ÿ There were about 10 more monuments than I expected to find in this area (I found 11).?ÿ Holding any one or two would give vastly different property line locations but that is how it often goes.
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿThis property is on a road formerly known as Fish Trap Road because when the river would flood, fish would be in the ditches on the uphill side of the road and after it receded, they were trapped by the road.?ÿ The area is very close to Big Bone Lick which was a historically important area for getting salt and early maps showed many roads.?ÿ Now it has been bypassed by progress and most of those roads have all but disappeared leaving access to some of the parcels questionable.
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You spurred me to do it.?ÿ Looked up Big Bone Lick in Kentucky.?ÿ Found it on Beaver Road, just down the way a bit from Beaver Lick.
Big Bone Lick is a short hike from the Beaver Lick Trading Post caddy corner to a restaurant formerly known as the Pink Pig.?ÿ Lots of great t-shirts right there.?ÿ A great deal of dinosaur remains have been discovered at Big Bone Lick, thus the name.?ÿ It is also about 5 miles from Rabbit Hash, Kentucky where the mayor is a dog.?ÿ Every couple of years they hold a fundraising event and you can buy a vote for a dollar.?ÿ They almost voted in a jackass one year just like a real election.
Thanks for the laugh.
While scrolling around I had seen Raccoon Road and Rabbit Hash Road.?ÿ There must be a good story behind Rabbit Hash, which is something I don't believe I have ever eaten.?ÿ I'll have mine fried, not shaken, not stirred.
