?ÿI have a client that wants his kids to go to one county school and not the other which is important to the land split he has asked me to do.?ÿ I have to nail down the county line running through the property which hasn't had anything done on it for a long time, maybe ever.?ÿ One end "near the widow Hughe's place" I can positively identify.?ÿ Still working on the other end.?ÿ?ÿ
In my search for information, I also collected some cool state line information and stumbled across this little gem.?ÿ I love substantial old monuments and in my neck of the woods, I usually don't get to see stuff that old.?ÿ hundred year old hedge posts is usually it.
5000 pounds each. Is that what you are going to start using as your standard monument Tom?
I'm pretty sure the County GIS Department could nail it down for him close enough to get by without a licensed land surveyor.
If your state is anything like NC, nobody knows where the county lines are. Heck, in some areas, we don't even know what state we're in.
Aren't the county boundaries coincident with the outer town boundaries? They don't run through the middle of towns, at least not that I'm aware of
I'd think you could nail down the county line in question by determining where that particular town boundary is. That's usually an achievable task where I survey
You'd be amazed at how ignorant most people are; when it comes to boundaries. I know I am...
Canada/US line runs through a library:
Towns in NC are not a political division in the same way as they are in the Northeast. In many places in the South, towns must be incorporated and their boundaries don't extend much beyond the limits of dense development. About the time you start seeing farmland, you're under the zoning authority of the county. NC has one hundred counties and there are probably a large number of county boundaries that don't come within miles of a town boundary.
Canada/US line runs through a library:
Derby Line VT?
Wow. I'm seeing a woman who grew up there, and she just told me about that library a few weeks ago.
Maybe need to work on my listening skills. But in fairness, it was during a hockey game, so....
My county would be simpler than most as our boundaries are all PLSS section lines. A square with most section lines being on ar near the center line of existing roads.
One county to the south is not as simple. The east line follows an Indian Boundary Line set up in the early 1800's that was not open for settlement until about 1870 (to the east).
The county to the northeast has two Indian Boundary Lines and a standard parallel.
It has probably been 20 to 30 years ago that I read a story involving two counties in Missouri a bit southeast of Kansas City that had one of those fuzzy boundaries that no one had ever solved. That seems incredible. All sorts of taxing boundaries are typically tied to those county boundaries.
