There was a paper train subdivision of 15 tracts averaging about 10 acres per tract. I'm now splitting up a 10 acre tract for a family exemption. Of course many of the lines were originally described by aliquot parts. My 10 acre tract is bounded on the south by a E-W CL of a 1/4 and on the east by the N-S CL of that same 1/4. Over the years other surveys have surrounded the paper train and there were "discrepancies" revealed. Basically I have competing Record of Surveys and deeds that use different theories to "breakdown" the section. I've worked through everything and set final corners. One of the 1/16 corner monuments I have on good authority was stabbed in the ground at an old fence corner that a farmer pulled over from the county road and eyeballed in. There is no recorded section breakdown for it. Anyway I locate the pin at the old fence corner with every intention of using it. I put in the section lines that I have from other surveys and it's .18' off E and .8' N.?ÿ
I look at the patents and it was a boundary corner in the original patents. I don't know, doesn't seem possible, but there it is.
Helped my mentor do some boundary work in a similar "subdivision".?ÿ It seems that the "original" survey was of very poor quality, and very little monumented, and multiple surveyors had applied different ways of interpreting the "original survey".?ÿ Not sure I'll ever be qualified to do a survey in that neighborhood!
Have refused to work in one taking up a full quarter section with something like 900 lots and curvy streets.?ÿ The fellow who drew it up is long deceased now but he told me all he did was draw it up.?ÿ No attempt was ever made to monument any part of it.
Excuse me for being naive, but how was this subdivision recorded without any monumentation?
I believe the time frame was the late 1940's in a county that had almost no subdivisions, except a rare few to expand the county seat.?ÿ A county employee is the one who drew the "vision" so the Register of Deeds probably assumed he knew what he was doing.
If the farmer stabbed the pin at a fence corner and that's what people are occupying, then who's to say that's not actually the corner?
I worked with a PLS for a while who was quite a fan of aliquot descriptions.?ÿ He was like "that means the parcel is whatever I say it is".?ÿ
