I suppose they could just say to the purported property owner making a complaint "where's your posted signs? Oh, you didn't mark your property lines? ...

I wonder why Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are issuing tickets. Are they to hunters on what the officers think are state lands? Is it the alleg...

I think this highlights the difference between establishing or retracing boundaries as a land surveyor, and using boundaries as a landowner, hunter, f...

I would try to find when the deed wording was first composed, and consider if that was before the age of pocket calculators. Back then people tended t...

I like sites where it's easy to spot SUMMARIES of new threads and threads I've marked as being ones that I want to follow. The initial view in this pl...

Being an electrical engineer, and since the angle is being measured from (0, 0), I think of a graph of the sine and cosine functions. These are smooth...

Is there really a group of readers who only want to read about boundary survey and want to skip posts that could have something to do with boundary su...

How binary circuits work, at least in computers: The answer flips back and forth unpredictably between 0 and 1 until the clock cycle runs out, and wha...

If a survey is filed in a government office that interacts with the agency that assesses real estate taxes, it's possible the value of the property wi...

It seems to me that if you care about the signature looking the same each time, you are concerned that someone will be looking at it closely. This ind...

I know some surveyors use sUAS (drones) for reconnaissance. Civil Air Patrol also operates sUAS and requires completion of a risk management matrix be...

As far as I can tell, United States National Grid is an overlay on UTM. Since UTM can be used with whichever horizontal datum you please, my hypothesi...

The last detailed, survey-quality survey of my road, performed by the government, was in 1811. There's no drawing, but there is a written description ...

I suggest investigating how property taxes are computed. In my state, the value may be based on a recent arms-length sale (a distressed sale or tax au...

I used to live in Castleton, two towns south of Swanton. I don't know any surveyors in that area. The snow isn't as much as it used to be; most storms...

I'll assume MightyMoe just expressed themselves badly and didn't actually intend to accuse everyone who ever looked a survey plat they didn't pay for ...

I think it's a given in today's world that a drawing will be displayed to an end user at a scale other than what the surveyor drew. (What does "what t...

I found a web page from the Maricopa County Recorder with requirements for recording a map: This web page does not mention a need for notarizations, ...

I can only speak for Vermont. As a notary, I have never been asked to notarize a survey plat. As a justice of the peace, I am a frequent visitor to th...

As a Vermont notary I would be interested how this turns out. One issue notaries have with notarial acts on survey plats is that the ink stamps used b...