I just got ahold of a survey with no mention of those things anywhere.
Are you in a recording state?
jud
> I just got ahold of a survey with no mention of those things anywhere.
I guess I could forgive that if there is some other way to identify the property, like street intersections or civic address.
I've seen surveys where the legal description is shown as a tax parcel number, with no additional information.
I have never done a survey .....
with a section, township, or range. What's the big deal??:-)
I have never done a survey .....
I was thinking the same thing. Never seen it in a deed except where I got adjoiners when I was on the State Line and the adjoiners were filed in Texas and LA. 🙂
Well, this property is a special case. It is located in Section 2, Township 1 South, Range 2 West of the Chickasaw Meridian. Now, I'm not sure that means much to lots of people, BUT, the property is in Tennessee. How sectionalized land ended up in Tennessee is an interesting story.
General James Winchester was contracted to survey the south boundary of the Chickasaw secession of 1818. This line ran from the Tennessee River to the Mississipi River and was the south boundary line of Tennessee. This line was supposed to be 35 degrees north latitude. Except it wasn't, he ran it wrong, going further north as he went west. This error was soon discovered. The only problem was that the Chicksaw ceded everything north of the line he ran. When they ceded northern Mississippi, the treaty called for them to receive a portion of the money from the land sales. Tennessee and Mississippi agreed on a line further south than the Winchester line, the old state line. When northern Mississippi was sectionalized, the old state line was used as the baseline, and the Chickasaws received money from land sales in Tennessee. Roughly the 1st and second townships are in Tennessee.
Unfortunately, too many Tennessee surveyors are terrified of the PLS and make absolutely no reference to it when they survey these sections.
Tommy
Unfortunately, too many Tennessee surveyors are terrified of the PLS and make absolutely no reference to it when they survey these sections.
So they just tie to something local?
> Unfortunately, too many Tennessee surveyors are terrified of the PLS and make absolutely no reference to it when they survey these sections.
:good: Works the same if you change the state name as well. You're probably familiar with that already.
Tommy
All of those tracts are now metes and bounds. Very few of them reference the PLSS.