I just priced a job that was last surveyed in 1941 by the worst surveyor around. The old plat has TWO north arrows about 45° different. Just thought that was funny.
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
There should be a prize for the most accurate old plat, since we see so many messed up ones.
I'm trying to figure out this 1958 plat around our church. Elsewhere on the same sheet a curve checks out nicely using standard highway (arc) curve formulas. These curves are either badly messed up, or were calculated with railroad formulas and then messed up. First attempts show those lengths not filling the gap between everything else.
Also, the south line bearing given a little further over is N 89 50 E. If you believe the two curve deltas cancel out and the street is constant width (20 ft of it in the next subdivision south), then the three lots 258, 259, 260 the church is on don't close by 1.4 ft. I'd hoped for a tenth or two. So my inclination is to think the curve was totally messed up and the southerly line of these lots is not parallel with the subdivision south line.
I'm trying to find an interpretation, hopefully with a simple mistake, that results in the plat numbers. It's turned into the sudoku I have to solve, but I'm not sure there is a solution.
Oh what I would give to only have problems like two conflicting north arrows or platted streets/lots that don't mathematically close by a mere 1.4 feet. Heck, I'd be happy to have plats, especially if they were that old, and to have a record of set monuments!! Wow! Count your blessings guys, it could be much worse.
> I just priced a job that was last surveyed in 1941 by the worst surveyor around. The old plat has TWO north arrows about 45° different. Just thought that was funny.
Hey ! How did you get a copy of my plat?
Everyone knows North is straight up...:-P
you just have to figure out which bearings go with which north arrow.
He just has several versions of north. Which way would YOU like it to be?
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