Tom Adams, post: 433684, member: 7285 wrote: I first heard of "offline" Witness Corners from a BLM course I took. I haven't looked it up, but it seem...

Carefull with those terms, the way you are using the terms W.C. and R.M. is the way I used to understand them, but in the BLM world, and for surveyors...

Gene Kooper, post: 433178, member: 9850 wrote: One would hope that a surveyor contemplating setting a pin cushion would include a long note on their p...

Ric Moore, post: 433245, member: 731 wrote: Warren, I know in CA, if federally-employed or contracted land surveyors were to survey the "exterior line...

warren ward PLS CO OK, post: 433089, member: 12536 wrote: The reason we have a PLSS, since 1785, and a BLM Manual, is to establish property lines for ...

Gross errors after the original survey should not be honored, but as Bill pointed out, a gross error by a licensed survey using modern GPS is a very d...

I. Ben Havin, post: 433079, member: 6834 wrote: In my neck of the woods (Florida/non-recording state) property closings take place every day facilitat...

Jim in AZ, post: 433026, member: 249 wrote: Amen Brother! So do I - Any surveyor who has been "Robillarded" into not doing so should hang up his profe...

Jawja, post: 432957, member: 12766 wrote: No, that is why attorneys were created. You do not make boundary decisions, courts do. If it is legitimat...

Jawja, post: 432957, member: 12766 wrote: No, that is why attorneys were created. You do not make boundary decisions, courts do. If it is legitimat...

Chris Duncan, post: 432855, member: 7540 wrote: In Virginia we are not a recording/filing state. By law the all plat, notes, computations, research, a...

JKinAK, post: 432888, member: 7219 wrote: The benefit to the public (and the survey community is that these public recordsA boundary survey impacts al...

eapls2708, post: 432522, member: 589 wrote: You're looking at this with the benefit of the knowledge that there is no such thing as a perfect section ...

MightyMoe, post: 432534, member: 700 wrote: The manual states it very clearly, the presumption is that the found corner is correct, the burden of proo...

I most certainly would give a copy of the survey. If you don't record the survey or give the survey to interested parties you have created nothing of...

eapls2708, post: 432512, member: 589 wrote: So we seem to be saying the same thing: that a fence may or may not be the best evidence of the original b...

eapls2708, post: 432350, member: 589 wrote: From the 2009 Manual: ??3-99: In the public land survey system a corner is fixed in position by operation...

Holy Cow, post: 432385, member: 50 wrote: There is a Register of Deeds that I know very well who believes that a survey creates a tract no matter whet...

Brian Allen, post: 432403, member: 1333 wrote: I had call yesterday from a realtor who was "helping" divide a family parcel with two houses, and 60 so...

Brian Allen, post: 432136, member: 1333 wrote: Yes, that is the "reasoning" many use, as it has been taught and preached by the unknowing for many dec...