I just completed a 6-1/2 year tour of duty in O&G. I didn't check every number on every plat, but I had adequately trained staff working under my ...

I think Stan has planned to discuss Seay's OX plat with the split section corners and definitely the typical Estes breakdowns which move the excess in...

Well, if you can wait until February, Josh Leamons, Stan Piper and I will be presenting a course on the 80 Mile T&P Railway Reservation at the TSP...

The Texas GLO might have a copy of the survey but it is not available on their website. They are also shutdown for Covid-19 and I can only get copies ...

@paul-in-pa The rules of the survey would be addressed in the special instructions and I'm guessing they were told to follow the original constructio...

Strike one from the New Mexico BLM office. I suppose I will follow up with some of the suggestions posted here. ...the BLM, New Mexico State Office,...

I'm the round man with the square deal. If I tell you tomorrow's Easter, you'd better dye your eggs tonight!" Any survey for $688! Gotto gotto get to ...

Again, anyone who was been here or on the old RPLS.com knows what I meant by cookbook and a certain poster who coined the term. Based on the early res...

@rankin_file Thanks. I assume you realized I was quoting the extreme precision surveyor from the most difficult and challenging state to survey in wh...

It's groundhog day. 5 years later and I am working another unrecorded internet land sales GIS map a half mile west of the survey in the original post....

I recently did a survey where an adjoiner owned a portion of the parent tract and was hostile to the purchaser of the remainder. She refused access to...

To quote Farmer's... I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two. As the age of internet progresses, the stuff you can find online grows e...

It looks like they determined there was a vacancy between the Smith Survey and the H&TC Survey. The corrective work was done by M.R. Estes and the...

Sylvan Sanders' materials went to the Texas General Land Office with the Twichell Collection. The maps have been scanned and are available on their ma...

@bill93   That's MCS73. I think there is a new datum proposed. 😆  

Thanks, all. I felt pretty good on the first part. Not so much on the second. I should have spent more time on the 1855 Manual of Instructions, I spen...