Stop it!!!!!!!!!!!!  

The "sacredness" of original boundary markers is an ancient concept. It's so ancient that it was laid out in the bible and even when Deuteronomy 19-14...

Hired to do a boundary. Part of it is: One corner, one monument. Make it so. Figure out all the clutter and clean it up. You don't work for...

It must be almost 30 years since I called that number. Maybe it was a different number then. There is this disembodied voice counting down the time, y...

Accurate time, accurate location, both were difficult in those days. We would plot our location and scale it off a quad sheet. The time was always...

I haven't seen it. I never got to within 10 arc seconds. A minute yes. The last one I did was in a deep canyon in the late 1990's. I had GPS so ...

@rankin_file They've done a pretty good job with the new stuff in IDOC, but in this county that only gets you back to 2004. Some counties go back f...

The GIS shows it blank, no taxes being collected. John Smith is long gone, who knows where the heirs are. There haven't been taxes paid on it for many...

I'm with you, it would make a great classroom book for this purpose. It's not a huge reference, it gets to the point, it's very helpful, the language ...

Wattles and Brown. One issue is what is even available. Wattles went walking somewhere from my office. Finding another copy wasn't easy. It's not Lord...

Don't give them ideas!!!!  

That's a classic.  

Rebar? I didn't see rebar, all I found was those original iron pipes. As the great Paul Reid used to say:  

@lurker I can only show what the record is. There won't be any changes or amendments done with my survey. What happens after that is up to the powe...

1995 subdivision plat  

The state, the city and the county are all "owners" with this property and the street. The street is actually an urban section of a US Highway. Most o...