I'm no longer up to hiking 25 miles a day up around the Sublette County-Fremont County line like I was about forty years ago. Or anywhere for that matter.
But someone with a fly rod, a good kit, and some good light GPS equipment could give it a try. Maybe about the middle of July.
> Your state legislature has already "defined" the county line.
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> You are simply laying it out.
In the case of a county line that is a watershed boundary, the real problem is almost certainly that the actual sinuous boundary is so irregular and (in places of flatter topography) even uncertain that as a practical matter the legislature's definition is insufficient.
It would be hugely wasteful to try to maintain a line that can neither be relatively efficiently nor definitely located and that wasted effort would presumably continue into the indefinite future. Just running out and setting monuments at some interval along the watershed boundary is at best a crude approximation and a very expensive one. Without official action from the counties concerned, I'd think that the survey would settle nothing.
So if official action is required to fix the line, I suppose that the most efficient scheme depends upon any state statutes that prescribe how county boundaries are to be marked.
> Many of the “County Lines” (boundaries) out here, are DEFINED as either “along the Summit of X Mountains,” or the hydrographic divide between the X & Y drainage's, or some such logical, but vague “line.”
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> VERY FEW of these “lines” have EVER been surveyed, let alone monumented. Not only THAT, but in some cases, the ACTUAL “hydrographic divide” is nearly impossible to determine without a VERY detailed Topographic study.
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> HOWEVER...due to Tax Sales (Sheriff's Deeds), and various other “descriptions” that CALL “to and along the County Line,” these Boundaries show up from time to time (more often than one might expect).
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> Most of the County Line Boundaries that HAVE been surveyed (and monumented), were executed in the late 1800s by a JOINT effort of the County Surveyors on BOTH sides (which is GREAT).
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> Of course “we” as private surveyors don't have the authority to DEFINE said County Line, so we can find ourselves in a survey version of the Kobayashi Maru scenario.
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> How do other handle this mess?
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> Loyal
Here in Hawaii, we surround all of our Counties with water.
Of course, that creates its own set of problems...;-)
> I'm no longer up to hiking 25 miles a day up around the Sublette County-Fremont County line like I was about forty years ago. Or anywhere for that matter.
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> But someone with a fly rod, a good kit, and some good light GPS equipment could give it a try. Maybe about the middle of July.
That's usually about the beginning of "Skeeter Season" in that country. 🙂