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Our county's budget is strained with hundreds of miles of roads to maintain and to simply keep up with the required amount of offices filled and operating according to state regulations.
960 sq mi and 30k population.
A copy of a plat is $5 min and then some rate per sqft of paper.
Deed copies are $1 a page, we can scan with a wand or take pictures. I use CamScan app on my android phone.
There is a grid defined by letters and numbers: A-1 the NW section 6, A-25 the NE section 1, Z-1 the SW section 31, Z-25 the SE section 36, this grid covers all the corners in a regular twp to the 1/16ths.
Bill93, post: 410241, member: 87 wrote: I haven't researched the law, but from the corner records I've seen i n Iowa, the practice includes recording the center and 1/16 corners. The form includes a grid like this.
I'm not familiar with Iowa law. Out here in the northwest we are generally only required to file on the Corners actually set in the original Survey. Sometimes that includes 16th Corners but usually not.
355.11
corner certificate shall be prepared as part of any land surveying which includes the use of a United States public land survey system corner, having the status of a corner of a quarter-quarter section or larger aliquot part of a section, if one or more of the following conditions exist ...