To quote Nancy Reagan: "Just say no" to elevation certificates.

Had an insurance company hire me one time to locate the remaining stump after a tree blew over and severely damaged the front porch of a house. The t...

This reminded me of the many times a survey client would tell me exactly how he wanted the survey to be laid out in some totally incorrect manner. No...

Osa Leighty Johnson--Woman of the Jungle

That reminds me of Daryl/Darryl/Darel/Darrell who provided many videos of flying all around Alaska. His wife was a high mucketymuck in BLM.

Prefer the "goal post" form. Open top. Have found 1/4 corner stones with both styles, though.

@squirl We did business with her father, Dwight Barnes, at Barnes and Weast John Deere on Cedar Street. Her younger sister, Barbara, was closer to...

Another nearby tie to fame:

Which Monte? The one from West Texas who has surveyed on horseback has been absent for quite a spell.

What's a tree? (supporting the knowledge that Kansas was largely a treeless plain at the time of the PLSS surveys)

For baseball fans we have these two from the same home town nearby.

Sloppy surveyors can create orphan tracts with ease. Example: A fellow owns the north half of the northwest quarter of a section, nominally 80 acres...

We have a ton of such orphans near here. A title company employee wrote a few thousand descriptions of rural tracts and always excepted out any road ...

??? BOI report ???

Chicken and egg question. What year was the RR laid out compared to what year the subdivision was laid out. Has the RR ever expanded from it's origi...

@wendell Should you ever wander over to Twin Falls County and the City of Buhl you could stop in at the West End Cemetery to visit some of my relati...

Why can you not survey within the highway right-of-way? We do it whenever we need to do so.

What an impressive summary!