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(@amdomag)
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Anybody can help me on how to interpret some terms that I saw for the very time in a map?

I saw the following:
3a. 3t. 34p. (inside a parcel)
fd (somehow represents information about corner monument.)
Cal. (appears next to a distance. This term somehow represents information about boundary line.)

Thank you.

 
Posted : 01/12/2017 10:28 pm
(@dave-lindell)
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fd is usually "found"

Cal might be an abbreviation for "calculated"

I've never seen anything like 3a. 3t. 34p

 
Posted : 01/12/2017 11:05 pm
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What Dave said. Would give him a like or quote him. But those functions donƒ??t work on my phone anymore.

 
Posted : 02/12/2017 3:07 am
(@james-fleming)
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Are you sure it's a "t" not an "r"? If it's an "r" then it matches the way area was described here in the 19th century.

3a = 3 acres
3r = 3 roods
34p = 34 square perches

(4 roods in an acre, 40 sq perches in a rood)

 
Posted : 02/12/2017 4:58 am
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Bushaxe

What Dave said. Would give him a like or quote him. But those functions donƒ??t work on my phone anymore.

I think everyone is aware that there are some glitches and other demons occurring with the transitions.

 
Posted : 02/12/2017 4:58 am
(@amdomag)
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James: Yeah it should be 3r. Thank you for that clarification.

I can't upload image, I can't use the reply button, etc.

 
Posted : 02/12/2017 5:13 am
(@sireath)
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maybe you could upload a picture of the map or link us the image so we could see the context of the map

 
Posted : 02/12/2017 11:33 pm
(@equivocator)
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Cal might be an abbreviation for "calculated"

Definitely. Usually put on Easement Lines where a new lot/road partially absorbs the easement. The new length of the easement is calculated, rather than measured.

As others have already said;
fd is Found
a. r. p. is the Acres.Rood.Perch area measurement.

 
Posted : 03/12/2017 12:42 am