What is the latitude of this correction line? What were the special instructions applicable to the layout of this standard parallel and the year of t...

Oh, my, this one will be entertaining to follow. All working in PLSSia should follow this thread.

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...

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.

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)

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...