Median house price in the Portland, Oregon area is in the $500,000 -$550,000 range. That's pretty high, IMO, but better than California. I spent ti...

One should be looking at the specific meaning of the word "line" when used in this context. I'm looking at some documents on your MA Subdivision Cont...

I use "StarNet" to do this sort of thing. Others use "Trimble Business Center" (TBC) or Leica's "Infinity". And there are others. They all work more o...

You've got to phone them and ask.

I've passed 3 state exams on the first try and have been licensed for 27 years. I think that I know the material. But if I was called on to write my h...

It seems that the version of 92.050(9) that I quoted came from 2001. It was later amended in 2005 with the addition of the County Surveyor reference. ...

@bstrand While it is the law for plats only, it specifies the logic behind making it the common practice for Records of Survey. One could include s...

Oregon Revised Statute 92.050(9) phrases it this way: "No city or county shall require that a final subdivision, condominium or partition plat show ...

I wouldn't, but it would be easy to create a separate drawing, using the ROS as a base, that shows what the client wants to see.

To what level of accuracy?

I'd have to ask how the record benchmark positions were determined. If they were determined by scaling from a map, or even with recreational grade rec...

It seems that you have platted? boundaries and erosion of the shore of a navigable waterway. Around here (Oregon) that means that the actual high wate...

I found that document easily by googling the above sentence. A terrific resource even for those not in Idaho. My only criticism is the notion of call...

This is an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. In Oklahoma, a non-recording state, you could rehabilitate a found marker and move on. ...

Go to the hardware store and get a new length of pipe. Set it and put your cap in it.