The northwest corner of my home county is a four corners situation. Four counties meet there. I have used the bar at the corner, in the middle of th...

Most people, including surveyors rarely have an excuse to visit such a marker. Some would fall in the middle of a river, for example. Others might b...

Can you provide a map of the Lots and lots to help us visualize the issue?

This reminds me of many of the old Westerns. What ever the bully wants, the bully gets. Then the hero arrives, learns of how detrimental this is to ...

I recall a case from many years ago where I had the closing call of my survey say: thence south (something) west to to the east line of the subject se...

Many old descriptions were written such that the direction of the next call was listed as being a specific angle relative to the back site. Other scr...

I had a young fellow working for me who had no instruction in the art of cursive writing. He did an excellent job of reading the old documents becaus...

Thankfully, no one has yet has made mention of Brokeback Mountain.

Oh, boo hoo, boo hoo. My day has been destroyed. Woe is me. Seriously. Sloppiness should not be tolerated. Make the effort to remember that the b...

I have arrived at numerous section corners and found zero of the corner tie records that were filed with the State and County to be valid DESPITE anot...

How do even know that it is still there? How do you know someone hasn't placed their own monument very close to yours? In the case of corners for whic...

I was under 6 the first time we visited these sundials. Dad told me the sun rays bend along the time line so that both were correct. Had no idea he ...