I just wish surveyors would run a closure on the boundary before submitting a plat for review. Just this morning, another subdivision where the bounda...

@holy-cow No, the continental divide is about 130 miles east of Grand Junction, the Mesa County seat. Mesa County butts up against Utah at the edge of...

Here in Mesa County, Colorado, we have three meridians, the 6th P.M., the New Mexico P.M. and the twelve townships of the Ute Meridian. Most surveys r...

The one I had to crank was a Monroe.

For those who don't miss it at all, or never looked back, why are you hanging out on a survey forum? Let's be honest,you must miss it a little. I st...

Well yesterday when I came to work my office was 58 degrees, so I immediately email facilities to fix it! The coldest outside was I70 construction s...

We had a bear knock our base down and chew the foam out of the case. Had almost made it to our search coordinates in very rugged terrain when the sign...

I recommend that a recreation easement be recorded between owners sharing a pond. I have dealt with several that started out fine between relatives or...

Here is a shortlist of advice I wrote for a presentation to the Young Surveyors Association a couple of years ago. Don’t quit learning Don’t be af...

In Colorado - Exception in deed, the exception of highway right-of-way in tax deed did not exclude that portion from fee … simply an acknowledgment ...

Colorado, for one, does require by Rule what you suggest: Documenting New and Existing Monuments. If a monument is set, as a result of a land surv...

I was involved in cases where the hunters persisted in trespassing. See the statutes below and the CPW hunting regulations also below CRS 18-4-201 Exc...

So, in the cases I was involved in, the hunters had been notified they were trespassing and persisted in doing so. The statutes suggest that you may n...

In Colorado property lines are not required to be posted in order for a trespass to occur. It is the indivuals responsibility to know where they are.

These were cases where an adjoining landowner was identified on the OnX map, improperly in my opinion, as the owner and they requested a ticket issued...

My first week as a "surveyor" I was setting up a brand new Wild T1AE with the head of the surveying department on a construction site. The previous de...

In preparation for testimony in trespass cases I have confirmed with OnX that their maps, at least in my area (Mesa County, Colorado), are imported di...