My son and his wife recently bought a house in Portland and he sent me a pic of an 80d nail he found about midway back of his property wondering what it meant. I figured it was either a control point or possibly a point marking line but obviously, I couldn??t be sure. I decided to do a little research and was quite impressed that I could find the recorded survey in about 30 minutes. No way someone in Oregon would find a copy of a plat of my property in Georgia anywhere close to that time.
I am impressed with the detail, the narrative, and the obvious effort that was expended in producing the survey.
I am curious as to why the house was not shown. In this case, The house and attached garage straddled the property line at the time of survey. ?ÿThe garage was torn off so that the owner could sell the house on one lot and keep a vacant lot to sell later. Seems like that is some important information left off of an otherwise detailed survey.
I will add that it is standard practice where I survey to show visible improvements on boundary surveys and I realize that is not the case in other areas.
I??m curious if my son decided to just have his lines marked, is that even an option??ÿ
As far as detail that looks like a pretty normal contemporary survey to me. Though I think the surveyor included a ton of linework that didn't need to be there (or maybe it does; I'm not licensed in Oregon so what do I know).
I am an Oregon registrant, and the Portland area has been my stomping ground.
The surveyor may have been assuming that the house and garage were to be raized, and so didn't bother to show it on the survey. Pretty common in a close in neighborhood like this, with high land prices but small old houses. I would have, nevertheless. But if the 2 lots have been held in common ownership there could be no AP, right?
The spike your son found is not a boundary marker. It's a traverse point. Oregon law specifies the use of capped 5/8 iron rods, or 3/4" iron pipes. The County Surveyor will allow Bernsten brass plugs to be substituted where rods and pipes won't work. They have the authority to enforce that. They never allow spikes or nails or anything else as boundary marks.
You will find that this particular survey office does a very high volume of this kind of work. 'Nuff said. I'm sure that they could mark the lines. No further survey would need to recorded for that.
