My task is to set the E1/16 between Secs 12 and 13.?ÿ
Found the Common 1/4 and the SE of Sec12, NE of 13.?ÿ
This in an Independent Resurvey township-GLO. The SE4SE4 of Section 12 is actually a small lot cause they created a tier of lots along the east side of the township.?ÿ
A dependent resurvey was completed by the BLM some years later and here are the notes:
No big deal, except on the ground there are two GLO caps, 0.40' apart. The 1/4 and the CC corner.?ÿ
The CC corner is west of the 1/4 both having almost exactly the same northing.?ÿ
Although the Independent Resurvey notes mention setting the 1/4 they don't mention setting the CC.?ÿ
There are a number of found double monumented corners in this township. They would often accept a private survey and set the GLO corner near, usually .5' or so distant. I will always accept the private monument then and figure the GLO is like a tag. But this is two GLO monuments. Weird.?ÿ
Are the caps dated the same?
yes, same date
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They didn't worry about the little measurements, would probably get a chuckle when modern day surveyors obsess about them.
That's what I'm going with anyway, I considered using the CC to prorate from, but since it isn't mentioned I'm going with the 1/4.
What's 0.4' to some is identical to others. That would be a Federal Pincushion.
This is the first I've heard of a closing corner set somewhere in the middle of a township.?ÿ Is that a resurvey thing?
yes, that township is full of them, independent resurvey thing, the township was "reconfigured".?ÿ
one very interesting thing is that most landowners in the township refused to recognize the independent resurvey and continued to describe their lands as sectional instead of by the new tracts. Still that way over 100 years later for some descriptions.?ÿ
Lots of closing corners around here also in the middle of the twp. due to Native Nations boundaries, mostly running N-S.?ÿ The surveys on either side were done years apart and can get tricky.?ÿ Dependent resurveys done in '68 by the BLM only added to the confusion in a lot of cases.
One CC in particular falls within about 15 links of where a quarter corner "would" be if it was a regular section (there are Lots abutting the Nations boundary).?ÿ About ten years ago some uniformed surveyor set a "quarter corner" by splitting the distance between the opposing section corners.?ÿ Then he filed a corner reference on his handy work.?ÿ It would be funny if he didn't work for the State Department of Transportation.
Buy 'em books and all they do is eat the pages.?ÿ 😉