My employer acquired or is acquiring a tract of land on US97 north of Macdoel, Butte Valley, Siskiyou County, California. I am surveying the boundaries of the tract. It is bounded on the north, south and west by the Butte Valley National Grassland (USDA-Forest Service) and on the east by the US97 right-of-way. US97 adjoins and is controlled by UPRR right of way on its east.
The challenge is two fold, first locate the highway right of way. The California Division of Highways (now Caltrans) acquired additional right of way on both sides and surveyed it in 1952. The survey line is known as the ??C? line in that segment. Caltrans has kindly provided us with a lot of old documents including their field notes of the 1952 survey. Their notes contain ties to some monuments that we have found and tied so that is very helpful in restoring the ??C? line and the R/W lines tied to it.
The other challenge is surveying the other three lines involved. Albert F. Parrott, LS1014, RE2144, was Siskiyou County Surveyor from 1922 to 1957. County Surveyors in that era often did private work. For example, Amador County has a huge trove of unrecorded surveys by County Surveyor Charles Bronson in the 1940s and 50s (not the movie star).
Parrott filed a survey on our tract in 1949. He set the 4 corners, we found 1 undisturbed and 1 badly bent and pushed over. The 2 front corners at the highway were destroyed decades ago. He also set the Section corner to the south which we found undisturbed. The 1952 highway surveyors tied 3 of the 4 corners (apparently the northeast corner at the highway was already destroyed). They also tied Parrott??s section corner. My distance from the section corner roughly 3+ miles northeasterly to triangulation station Meiss only differs from their distance by 0.3 feet (calculated by me from their field notes).
Jeremy in the County Surveyors Office is helping by providing research and indexes so I can request further documents.
We have the highway tied down. The next phase is finishing the topography (very simple, it??s a featureless flat former cattle pasture). Then we will need to go search out and tie in more far flung section corners to verify the other 3 lines.
Nicholas Labedzki is assisting on this survey.
Note: photo of Parrott courtesy of Siskiyou County Surveyors Office.
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Excellent report. ?ÿ0.3 feet in 3 miles! ?ÿHoly smokes. ?ÿWell done, everyone. ?ÿSo satisfying.
