@MightyMoe, I guess I sort of described the situation poorly in my first post. They indicate that they set all the monuments around the traverse in 19...

Thanks, everyone, for the helpful responses. I'd "like" all your comments, but I don't think you can do that on the new site. Attached is a rough sk...

I've never seen an instance like this where what they originally marked and called the section corner was disregarded in favor of another closing corn...

Without putting out too much info on a public forum, here's the high-level overview: The GLO surveyors ran the north line of this township, with the f...

Did you try a plat image? That's what I'm trying to get to.

@gene-kooper I'm not sure how I would determine the spiral definition if it's not specifically called out (which I've seen sometimes in the descriptio...

@dougie I'm not writing a new description in this case. The r/w deed legal description is written something like: "That part of Section 1, lying withi...

@dave-lindell I tried that... same problem though:

I had the exact same comment from a city planner recently! The font used was regular old simplex (leroy, romans, etc... that type) that a lot of peopl...

As I understand it, in general, the applicable version of the manual is the one that was in effect at the time of the survey. But does this rule only...

I usually say the North, South, East, or West 1/4 corner of [the section you're working in, if only one]. Otherwise, it's the 1/4 corner common to Se...

The button appears in MS Edge browser, but map doesn't update after I hit submit and/or reload.