@holy-cow good counties have good records retention. We have counties that were good about that, even some that put it online. Some county surveyors e...

Double proportioning is justified because they measured all four directions within limits according to the official field notes. It was like they were...

Well then the County should issue the license, not the State.

@ashton in the 19th Century California property owners could petition the County Board of Supervisors to establish a County Road from point A to point...

@sicilian-cowboy This is from the re-amended Record of Survey. The heavy lines connect the section lines established decades prior: ?ÿ

I would buy a full set of each major brand and do the same medium difficult job with each of them just to find out which is really best.

@mark-mayer we donƒ??t stake in the rain down here south of the border.

@mark-mayer one time back in the early 1990s I was working for the typical small time land development firm, apartments, housing tracts, strip mallsƒ?...

I agree with Duane.

@holy-cow sounds like post traumatic stressƒ??it took his skin flint Grandfather 5 months and a severed ear to negotiate the ransom down.

The Lot is the width shown on the original Plat. Your measurement is just a more precise definition of what ƒ??50 feetƒ? means. Congress put this co...

@thebionicman I just kicked your monument 2 hundredths so now your math works.

@bill93 Just squares, simple. They even tried to Survey the squares in the mountains with interesting results, if they did it.?ÿ I think in some case...

@paden-cash it looks like on the 1939 Plat they simply connect CC to SC to CC to SC etc.?ÿ But glorecords doesn't have the Field Notes to verify.

I was looking at a Traverse in 1934 GLO notes, bearings to nearest minute, distances to nearest link.?ÿ If I compute it in a cogo program the answer i...

Significant digits schmignificant digits. I used to do Option 2 but lately I just put the rounded number on the Map, they don't add up exactly but th...

@gene-kooper I remember that very well.

Gene is the expert on this. I think in Mineral Patents senior rights is determined by the claim date, not the Patent Date.?ÿ The Senior claim can get...

I guess I need a drawing. I was picturing a line with a witness tree controlling direction at a point before the creek then the line continues to int...