Don't forget to put it on the curve.

For a typical township the N1/4 of Section 1 is also the S1/4 of Section 36, however, as Norman states above when closing on a standard line there wil...

Trimble has routines that take care of all this for you. Do you have a way to look at your DC file and see how they adjust the measure up? There may b...

@jim-frame I'm all on board with it, some of the recent AP decisions were shocking. Not that the courts were incorrect, but the AP here was very ea...

Our state just threw a bomb into AP. You can only claim it now if you've paid the taxes on the land. If the defendant has paid the taxes there is not ...

Thanks for that one. I started reading, but I'll have to finish it when I have more time. How long is the time in Washington to prove up AP?

I used to do those all day long, it wasn't until you got to 490' if I remember correctly that C&R hit over .005' so then it would round up to .01'...

To figure out where it is would, you will need to hire a locator, we use a couple of them, they will either find it or let you know they can't, but th...

I have .01% of mineral rights of a family well. If the amount doesn't reach $100 in a month I don't get a check, once the total from the last payment ...

@holy-cow Split estate comes in a couple of flavors. The ones above are reserved rights by the Feds. How much of the mineral rights they retained w...

@bill93 Split estate issues began in the early 1900's. At first coal was reserved, later, I think it was 1916 all minerals got reserved. So if pate...

Lot 1 is the NE1/4NE1/4, all the lands in the Section are described as aliquot parts under the patents. There are only lots for Fed estate. I don'...

One of my favorites:   Not as narrow as your example, but still it's a mess. This is a dependent resurvey of a township. This Section 8 whi...

Because of the era, I'm guessing, without seeing the instruments, they are to prove up patents

I've noticed more and more with the era of GPS my checks to record monuments are often .02-.03' or less. I don't even change anything, I report R&...

Yeah, the old days of returning the measurements has long vanished. Now it's all about manipulation. There was an agency that started writing descript...

I believe I get it now, it's a declaration of occupancy, so it's not a grant of rights, but the land owners are decelerating that they are occupying t...

Do you mean the water grant? Or All the World grant? I'm guessing

We got an RIP for an addition to a building on Friday. The addition is 5000sf. Some sidewalks but no parking lot, utilities or road staking. The fi...

I believe Hickhiker's Guide was a late 1970's early 1980's era book. Somewhere about there. I don't remember much from it as far as details but 42 sti...