I am working on a boundary survey in a rural area of the county to the southwest of where I am located. The deed contains 3 tracts: Tract One is a 30 acre parcel (50 acre originally with 20 acres conveyed out); Tract Two is 1/4 acre; Tract Three is an area of abandoned right-of-way that contains 0.11 acres.
I have retraced most of Tract One and Tract Three. Nobody knows where Tract Two is located. The description of this tract is: "BEGINNING AT A SMALL SYCAMORE ON THE BANK OF TWELVEPOLE CREEK; THENCE RUNNING WEST 14 POLES TO A STAKE ON THE BANK OF TWELVEPOLE CREEK; THENCE S. 8 POLES TO A STAKE AT THE COUNTY ROAD; THENCE EAST 14 POLES TO THE BEGINNING CORNER, CONTAINING ABOUT ONE-FOURTH (1/4) ACRE."
The other tracts in the subject property contain no calls to a small sycamore. The adjoining descriptions contain no call to a small sycamore. The owner doesn't know where it is or where it came from.
Back to the courthouse I go.
See What Fits
You have a creek, a road and some dimensions. Lay it out on paper, overlay an orthophoto and then look in the field for evidence.
Paul in PA
So you're trying to find the mystery crapizoid in Wayne County. Good luck with that. Don't really matter where you "put it" as long as no one else can "put it" anywhere else any better. No one knows where it is until you stake it and then everyone will be there to tell you where it ain't. If it wasn't worth a survey when they created it, it probably isn't worth a survey now. See ya at the courthouse...
It could be simple if there is ony one sycamore of the proper vintage to be found anywhere on the entire tract that happens to be close to a creek bank where you could go west (whatever that means) to another similar point on the same creekbank, then south (whatever that means)to a point near the side of a road and then run east (whatever that means but definitely not parallel with the "west" first cited) back to whence you began your journey.