As always...it depends! Here in the Great Basin, PLSS (Section Township Range) Bearing Trees, are NORMALLY measured to the "center of the tree," howe...

Wood Post Section Corner set in 1854 or 1855, found mound of stones w/ [dead] Bearing Tree. Loyal

Ya better keep an eye out for Rodan, Mothra, etc...things could get complicated. 🙂

I have the Fourth Edition (1976) and although I believe that it is worth reading (I guess), I was never very impressed with it. Loyal

Hex drives (Allen Wrenches) come in both SAE and Metric, you probably need the "other" one. Loyal ?ÿ

I agree with Norman. Most likely Easting/Northing. ASSUMING that "they" are UTM Coordinates in meters (which they look like); Your property is abou...

Not very well stated, but it appears (to me) that they are talking about "NAD83" (realization ???) Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 14 Coordin...

Agree 100% While the age-old 2-dimensional ƒ??scale & rotateƒ? technique still has a place in modern surveying, its [proper] application is limit...

I've got one of those up on the shelf. A GREAT tool, that was worth it's weight in gold (and probably cost nearly as much back in the day). Loyal

Yeah, well lots of folks still use the term "tin foil" when referring to Aluminum Foil, even though tinfoil went the way of the Dodo Bird over 70 year...

I dunno Bill, I might be missing something here, but all of the Witness Corners appear to be ON LINE except the WC for the ?¬ Corner of Sections 20/29...

Interesting, the MTP indicates that the Original Patents do NOT reflect the diagonal Boundaries. It doesn't look (to me) like the "new" Field Notes ar...