North Carolina Surveyors

First thing you do is find the nearest Walmart to your subdivision and drive a big ol' stob in the middle of the dirt road intersection. Then set your odometer and drive from that stob to the stob you have set to be the point of beginning for the perimeter of your subdivision. Record that distance. That way when you go to write the description of the parcel being subdivided you will be able to properly begin the description as: "Beginning at a stob being 7.3 miles southeasterly of a stob in the middle of the road intersection at Walmart, thence...............

Hey, North Carolinans, do the "blue laws" still apply on Sunday? I spent a week there back in 1977. At that time it was hard to purchase anything but food and gasoline on Sunday because every other kind of store was closed due to the "blue laws".

I'm not a surveyor; just a math teacher who studies geodesy and mathematics of surveying, so I can't address the Wal Mart stake in the road suggestion. I have heard tell of an A-Model sunk in a creek in Rockingham County that serves as a control point for "everybody." Not sure where the punch mark is on the A-Model or how it's sighted after a heavy rain, but I have heard tell of it. Maybe it's been GPSd and Blue Booked by now.

As to the Blue Laws, they're gone, done in by big box retailers and fast food chains and a citizenry unhappy with being told how they should spend even one day of their week.

Come back to see us again sometime.

> Hey any North Carolina Surveyors out there that might be able to advise me about subdividing some property in Haywood County? I can be emailed through beerleg.com I believe.

Former NC field hand here. What exactly do you need to know? Far as I know, sub-dividing in Haywood ain't no different than any other place in western NC. Well... Maggie Valley might be a little different on account of the views. I've done work all over western NC including Haywood right up to the Cherokee "res" boundary.

Remind me: is that where they have that walkway into the courthouse from the parking lot? My issues with heights became apparent the day we ambled across. Vertigo came right on. I held on to the hand rail and looked at my feet. Else I would have passed out.

AS to the blue law crap... NC hasn't had state-wide blue laws in a long time. It's a county by county thing. Georgia, where I am now, finally dumped their state-wide Sunday sales a couple years ago.

Anyway, back to Haywood county. Knowing those mountains VERY well you best get a topo all around. You will likely have to address drainage (rain fall) issues.
We got subbed out to a feller there (if I'm remembering the right county) for the county building a new fire station. Gees I wish I could remember the street names. I visualize it easily and remember our setup points.

It's probably a Ford axle. Many of them have been used for corners over the years. Even here in my Rockingham County, VA.

Where in Haywood County? Inside a municipality?

North Carolina has since become a progressive state after 150 years of being dominated by the repressive democratic regime.

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Thanks all.

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> Thanks all.

Tom,

Call me next week. We can catch up and discuss subdivisions in NC. Like most places you'll find the laws are sometimes followed and other times ignored. This is usually determined by whether the planner is on a power trip.

As is usually the case, finding a local professional you can trust to look out for your best interests is a key starting point.

Larry P