Ironic, I just finished reading John Stahl's excellent article on POB when this news story popped up. Somebody out east needs to find this jack-legged "surveyor" and whack his pepe with a hard-bound copy of Cooley's Dictum.
http://news.yahoo.com/nc-sc-state-line-isnt-where-folks-thought-183850866.html
Will his next trick be to adjust all sections to 80 chains????
> Will his next trick be to adjust all sections to 80 chains????
I didn't realize there were section lines in North Carolina. Pretty myopic view of things. I think there were at least 13 states well before PLSSia came to be.
Ralph
Well no wonder the border is off!
whack his pepe
Funny. a ref to Cheech and Chongs Big Red album....You forgot "Bailiff...."
> Well no wonder the border is off!
🙂 Touche!:good:
It was the 17th state which introduced the PLSS. I live there in a five mile square PLSS Township.
I assume they are out there looking for original state line marks, and trying to retrace the state line, which, I agree should have been done a long time ago and maintained over the years. I assume no 'property lines' will change, per se, but they may only find that the State line goes where they didn't think it was. But I am not sure about that.
Regardless, the article does not clearly state that they are looking to retrace the original line and by its wording it implies that maybe they are getting a more accurate position on the original calls vs. original monuments. Maybe they are, but I would think it is the writer of the article that really doesn't understand, and not the surveyors' retracing the line.
But then agian, you never know. I guess congress could be saying that the line is on the meridianal call and not where it was staked. (and then again where was the meridian based on the datum and zero-longitude at that time). I just have a hard time believing that that would fly.
Some thoughts, anyway. My 0.04' as we say on the surveying page.
The California-Nevada boundary is not where it "should" be per the U.S. Supreme Court which tries these cases.
It is where it was monumented in the 19th century using imperfect means, to say the least. There were multiple versions of the boundary run and the Court chose the one actually in use.
