I recently picked up a 1400 acre survey in Indiana.?ÿ After getting the contract I found out my kin folks were the sellers, but that's another story.?ÿ The property is on the Ohio River.?ÿ I was trying to figure out the proper way to determine the property line, which is the mean low water mark.?ÿ While using the county GIS I noticed some nodes along the state line in the river that were called "State Line SPC".?ÿ I emailed the county surveyor to ask what that was about and he told me that there was a Supreme Court case in the 80's that put coordinates on the state line.
I'd like to learn more about this, so if anyone knows anything, let me have it.
You should be able to read the case and all the data. The final ruling will have all the coordinates and perhaps some metes and bounds. It's all public record and if there is a ruling on the line that you need to use, well I guess you need to use it.
https://appellatepublic.kycourts.net/
https://www.in.gov/courts/supreme/
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@stlsurveyor?ÿ I should have clarified that it's a ruling from the Supreme Court of the United States.
This may lead to it
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Kentucky v. Indiana, 474 U.S. 1 (1985)
Was in the McCracken Co. courthouse a couple months ago and noticed a book in the vault with that information in it. ?ÿPulled it out to see what it was. Took up the entire book. ?ÿDon??t remember the exact name, believe it mentioned the Supreme Court and the state line. ?ÿNot sure if it had the entire line, or just the Illinois portion. ?ÿ
Without having read the ruling, the first question that comes to my mind is this: did the court fix the state boundary along the river at these coordinate positions, or does their ruling allow the state line boundary to follow riparian principles?
