I'm trying to figure out if there was a reason the lotting was done this way? I suppose there's no real problem with legal descriptions using these lot numbers, but am still trying to digest what and why.
I don't understand what's wrong?
If you are talking about the 80 acre lots, that is a practice that was followed for a while and is fairly common in some areas. I would bet it is dependent on the policy in effect at the particular date the plat was approved. There is no specific reason for it except the policy at the time.
In other words the way sections were divided by protraction on the plat varied over time, and may also differ by the land office involved as well as time frame.
- jlw
I've never seen that. It appears as though anything with less that the cardinal 160 acres got a Lot number. The protracted 40 acre lines are shown, but the Lot size appears to be 80, except in Sec. 31.
No answers here, that's a new one on me. Some sort of "Special Instructions" no doubt.
Foggy,
These 2 plats are more the "norm". Note that they show the lotting only for the most northern and western 16th aliquot parts of the sections receiving the township errors. The plat I showed earlier included the entire northern and western halves of those sections.
Thanks Jerry,
I haven't noticed Magee doing this type of lotting elsewhere, but perhaps he had someone else "helping" with this particular township platting.
What through me for a loop was I was trying to locate an easement from a deed description and it called to the west half of lot 1 of the NW quarter and the east half of lot 2 of the NW quarter of a section. These calls didn't make sense to me based on a latter subdivision map showing the location of the easement and my thinking of how the lotting should look. That prompted me to pull up the GLO plat where I noticed the strange lotting.
Anyways, glad to hear you have seen it before as being a practice by some, so I won't rack my brain trying to figure out the why.
Jeff
thanks for the explanation!
Excellent point. Whenever I hear "that's the way the BLM does it" I just shake my head. To this day there are variations year to year and field office to field office. Knowing the policies in effect at various times and places is critical to our profession, but so is knowing when 'it depends' kicks in...
