I came across an inadvertant pincushion. A Surveyor set a 3/4" iron pipe for a section corner in the 1930s or 1940s (it's unclear).
In 1949 the County Surveyor, Charles Bronson (you read that right), states on an unrecorded survey "FD 3/4" IRON PIPE SET BY STATE SURVEYOR."
The 3/4" iron pipe is there sticking up about 8 tenths. Next to it 15 hundredths away is an 1-1/2" iron pipe up about 4 tenths with a square aluminum tag riveted to it marked for the corner with Bronson's LS number. I think Bronson found the 3/4 pipe and stuck a witness next to it with the proper markings.
The confusion comes in when the maps over the years choose one or the other. Back then the surveyors weren't terribly descriptive about what they found. Found 3/4" pipe might be all you get. There's no explanation that a 1-1/2" iron pipe with a big fancy tag is next to it for a witness.
I found our 1956 field notes which say the corner is a 3/4 pipe with an 1-1/2" pipe marked for the corner 0.15' west of it.
Even the BLM thought the 1-1/2" pipe is the corner.
It isn't really that big of a deal in rough overgrown foothill country; just a minor thing.
I have an interesting research project on the south quarter corner of this section to do tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing if my hunch is correct.
> It isn't really that big of a deal in rough overgrown foothill country; just a minor thing.
You say that now, but wait until the forum hawks start picking at it!
smells like bait to me (-;
0.15 feet!!!
OMG
the SUPREME COURT is gonna have your a$$ now 😛
If he is still alive... better accept Bronson's corner.
Just sayin
😉
My favorites, and I've seen this more than once, are when we set a NEW ORIGINAL division corner for a family partition or something, and then the landowners, instead of setting a fence corner by it or something, drive an axle next to all of the 1/2" steel rods. The next cat coming along doesn't get that we set ORIGINAL corners and feels they were pin cushions and ties in the axle 0.2' away and uses it instead of saying Fnd. 1/2" Steel Rod guarded by an axle or something.
THAT is about the only time I see pin cushions around my neck of the woods.
Recording boundary surveys eliminates much of such foolishness.
> If he is still alive... better accept Bronson's corner.
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> Just sayin
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> 😉
Well...theoretically speaking, of course, what if a new corner had been set by Chuck Norris? Huh?
There are many of those guard irons placed around monuments in my area. At least they are notably set apart from the actual monument in the fact that less than 1/3 of the object is in the ground and most are leaning significantly and in many cases with some type of rag attached.
Can always tell the crews that only get the adjoining references and usually no copy of that actual document whereby they never actually read the complete document.
They are also the ones that usually leave their pin finder in the truck.
Also, they may have a copy of a previous or adjoining plat and yet, have never caught on to what type of monument they should be searching for.