aliquot, post: 407243, member: 2486 wrote: This was a 1834 survey. Lots were not standard then. The patent calls for an odd acreage in agrement with the plat. The surveying instructions called for the excess and deficiencies to placed here. The plat even calls out the internal parenthetical distances.
By 1898 loting was standard, but that patent could not have called for a lot that had not been platted. A good solution would have been a supplemental plat, but that was not done. Calling the aliquots fractional seems like a good way to acknowledge the non aliquot nature of these parcels.
Just looked at the plat, I see what you are saying, an 1898 patent but an 1840 plat with no lottings, they couldn't do anything but state the W2NW4.
Patented squares:
The NW quarter is larger by Patent but could the SE4/NW4 make a case for mid-point protraction of the NW quarter? Maybe except the NW4/NW4 and the NE4/NW4 are probably fixed unequal by Patent.
Hopefully the first Deed granting out the SE4/NW4 states the government acreage at 40.18 acres. Practical construction of the square (lines of possession) may answer the question too. I'm not sure what Arkansas case law might have to say about it, maybe it never came up.
Here's my final plat.
You are braver than I am, Nate.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 407284, member: 291 wrote: Here's my final plat.
Could be my misunderstanding, but why is the date 1/02/2016 and the drawing number 695-2017? I'm guessing it was supposed to be reversed, the last drawing of 2016 but signed in 2017.
Trivia: why is one corner a #4 rebar and another a 1/2" rebar. What's the difference?
Your symbol legend might define Closing Corner so semi-familiar users don't think they are Calculated Corners.
Because I am mentally challenged about dates.
6 vs half a dozen
It's hard to place sybmols that fall quite close...
Where is spell check?
(Thanks Bill!) Need another set of eyes.
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Nate The Surveyor, post: 407310, member: 291 wrote: Because I am mentally challenged about dates.
6 vs half a dozen
It's hard to place sybmols that fall quite close...Where is spell check?
(Thanks Bill!) Need another set of eyes.
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Nate, you forgot to curve your lines!!!!!!!;)
The patents don't use the word fractional so I wouldn't either. The patents also agree with the platted acres. Around here similar patents do use the word fractional and I use the same words the patents do.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 407077, member: 291 wrote: Jon, that would sound a bit like Dennis Mouland.
Taken a few of his courses and seen many lectures.
Last time I saw dennis it was well below 0 and I was scraping the windshield of his rental car in the parking lot of sdspls convention while he was parked next to me shivering his Arizona ass off inside.