We have found quite a few original survey monuments over the decades. Probably 50 percent of the ones where we have called on the County to provide a...

The problem can be very specific to how a description was created. We had a case where an entire quarter section had been owned by the Smithers famil...

I truly enjoy doing the research myself. We have great indexes for all named subdivisions/additions/town plats. We also have great indexes for Towns...

A pet peeve is finding what should be a straight line with four different bearings (seconds don't match). This happened again the other day. The sec...

I support Richard Germiller's mention of using a non-technical person to proofread. However, I heard of one case where the proofreader marked one spe...

So, you are doing a survey inside the Town Plat of Kumquat, New Mexico dated August 22, 1887. Just your everyday boundary survey of a single lot, Th...

Our STR indexes are great. It is extremely rare that we need to search through the grantor/grantee indexes.

The city plats, subdivsions and additions already have their own indexes. That is why it is not needed.

Checked out the most recent list of violations announced by the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions (Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Arch...

Many men can relate to getting to the point of begging but something other than surveying is the goal.😆😆😆 A nearby Register o...

Surely the setback requirement for structures would somewhat dull the impact of the spiral curve. I can think of a local industrial park that has 25...

Changing the drafting units to inches and fractions is easy peasy. Try it.

I came along when getting a PE in a specialty, such as Chemical Engineering was in its infancy. I went with the option of the traditional general PE....

What if the creation of the so-called non-conforming tract had been created 100 years ago? Hell's Bells, we have tons of little tracts that were cre...

20 years pass. Seven different surveyors have either surveyed the original tract or its abutters. The latest survey plat shows multiple bearings and...

@dmyhill One more reason you have no fear of me ever moving to Washington, or Oregon, or California, or..............

My first personal encounter with this issue goes back to my early years of serving on a Rural Water District Board of Directors. We had a case where ...