I thought some of you might appreciate this description
The first line probably now reads something like 14 feet north of where the store used to be? I feel bad for ya.
> The first line probably now reads something like 14 feet north of where the store used to be?
Well, at least they are keeping the description up-to-date. 😉
Should be easy if you have your "stone corner" locator. 😉
I think there may be some guys on here that can find those with dowsing rods. They can even tell if it has a dimple or an "x" without digging. 😀
Thanks for posting, that is a good one.
I half expected that to close pretty well, but it didn't.:-O
How do you interpret 8 degrees East, North ?
My first attempt (reading it as 8 degrees East of North) didn't close by far too much. Or isn't the last course supposed to close?
That is how I interpretted it. I calc'd a rough closure by summing the northings and eastings and got about 125'S and 59'W
That's good compared to a lot I deal with.
I've retraced similar. In the ones I was involved with they meant what they said. From east to north 8 deg.
With that interpretation I get a rough S shape that doesn't begin to resemble a parcel. Not even a wrong quadrant blunder would seem to fix it.
Just sketching but, I get a reasonable looking figure by making 2 changes where courses go in unreasonable directions. Fourth course change to N E, and last course change to E N.
It is tough to interpret for sure.
First I did a rough sketch which yielded a basic rectangle with a jog in the north line, one course on the western edge and three on the eastern edge. Then I converted all the bearings and distances to the same datum (for lack of a better word).
The first question is if this is indeed supposed to close, or if it's a strip description. Since it runs out to the state road and along it for a distance, I was assuming it was a telephone/electrical/water line easement description or something similar.
If it is a parcel, there are still the calls "to the state road" and "along the state road" that could help solve the closure problem.
I'd probably work it backwards, starting with a search by grantee/grantor adjoining a state road in the area and then comparing my various interpretations of the description to the location of any stores shown on area maps (utility companies or railway companies often show stores on older maps) to see if I can place the POB into anything that makes sense at all.
Fun!