To my recollection New Mexico, like California, Florida, Louisiana, etc. and other lands where there had been other nations title, formed a land court...
BLM database can have errors though. Sometimes there was the phenomenon of trying to put the square peg into the round hole. This plat shows 626 + ac...
The GLO survey 1882 plat is on the www.glorecords.blm.gov website in T12S R06E NMPM as a grant. Also the township plat showing the grant is available...
I was wrong about the trinity site, evidently not the first to mistake the feature on aerial imagery, the actual site is considerably further north.A ...
That may be a stones throw to the NE from the Trinity site. It looks like two lakes there, one dry to the SW and the other not so dry which shows on ...
So how does that check with your tie? About 10 miles further south it looks like?- jlw
What to you guess the basis of bearing is? i.e. assuming it was a compass bearing what declination would you use?Once you have that sort of decided th...
Spreadsheet?For a simple traverse one might be able to write or get written a spreadsheet.Adding area by DMD would not be hard. Having any kind of ad...
Some inputI was also in CA BLM at the time much of this work was done, and have even been on the project several times.I do recall that a decision was...
PS, I am not sure of all the political implications of what your are trying to say. It could be a theory that all government services should be charg...
I think the GPO printing cost was around $37, but I would have to go back and do some research to verify. Of course even the GPO has to cover some ot...
ACSM offered quantity discounts to state societies and other member organizations and many took them up on it. CLSA was one, AL another. If you are a...
At best this is what can be termed as a contruction level and maybe in the loosest terms a 'transit'. Very common and very inexpensive and often foun...
2009 MANUALI would be interested in what proof and authority you can cite for this copyright assertion.From what I have heard, (hearsay), Simpson did ...
Dane,Areas on lots on plats are not definitive or controlling. They can provide guidance on how the lots were constructed. They do not control.If you ...
I bought a used Kern 1" DKM2 for around $4000 roughly 1981-2 in excellent shape, if that helps. Someone should be able to look at ads in old ACSM jou...
Adam I made a mistake the first time,butI may be missing something (besides the notes on the north line) but you can't just figure lots as a series of...
PeterI think they are called a trailer tape. I have a 2 chain trailer tape. It has an additional set of graduations (on the back) that begin at 1 ch....