I'm retracing part of a Re-established Township. It looks like a Re-establishment Survey is part Dependent Resurvey and part Independent Resurvey. The notes reference found monuments but they also created Tracts. The survey was performed in 1910 & 1911 but they marked the monuments 1908. Does anybody have a document that explains these Re-established Townships?
Tom
teffinger, post: 350861, member: 2642 wrote: I'm retracing part of a Re-established Township. It looks like a Re-establishment Survey is part Dependent Resurvey and part Independent Resurvey. The notes reference found monuments but they also created Tracts. The survey was performed in 1910 & 1911 but they marked the monuments 1908. Does anybody have a document that explains these Re-established Townships?
Tom
The BLM put out the book "Public Lands Surveying : A Casebook: it has info in it, also the manual in Chapter 5
What is usually the reason for an independent resurvey was that the original survey was declared fraudulent or partly fraudulent or not recoverable for some reason. Also there would have to be entryman who were given patents and occupied them.
The GLO came along and can't find much of the original, then they get the homesteaders together to agree to an Independent resurvey. It sounds like the Dependent Resurvey may have been unoccupied Federal lands and didn't need an Independent or it was in good recoverable condition.
The tracts are there to protect the bona fide rights of the patent holders, you should find a cross index that tells the tale of what the tracts were before the independent resurvey it will have the description of the original ownership and how it changed into the tract.
The Independent resurvey "shifts" the section lines around and this often causes confusion, just remember that the original locations for section lines became tracts and the new section lines are usually federal lands at the time of the resurvey.............
Marking the corners as 1908 for a 1910 resurvey is common and expected.
There are lands that continue to be described as in the original patents, so the cross index is very important.
I'm sorry, I asked the question poorly. I think the answers to my questions are in the Special Instructions for the Reestablishment Survey.
Tom
In case anybody interested in BLM Casebook: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/reference/manuals/BLM_Case_Book_sm.pdf
