Hand clippers. Granted, I'm not working in the deep woods these days. I have machete in the truck but I bet I haven't used it twice in the last five y...

By utilizing the General Statement / Body / Qualifying Clauses format, with a generous measure of bounds and monument calls included, a professional l...

Welcome to the club.

More on the Willamette Stone ....                 The heavy purple east/west line is the b...

If you just post them here you are going to get more review than you might wish for.

I believe that the PS is still a multiple choice exam. Assuming that is the case, while there may be questions about legal descriptions I can't see th...

The location of the Willamette Stone, as it came to be known, was selected so that the baseline running east would bisect Portland and stay south of t...

I'm thinking that new legals would be a routine part of such work. I can't see how you can do any part of this if you can't do that. Maybe you could ...

The northeast corner (being also the SE corner of Kansas) is a pincushion of a different sort.

That should have read "Starting in 1871 ........"

Lets not get the OP in a stir a week before his test. Oklahoma has only two meridians, the Indian and the Cimarron.

Much of Oklahoma was surveyed under the 1855 manual - same as Kansas, I believe. Starting in 1881, when plenty of Oklahoma remained to be surveyed...

For ordinary township lines the last mile north is run random and true. The quarter corner goes in at 40 chains. When that last mile ends on a correct...

My city has a rule, which is predicated on the county recorders rule. No graytone or colors on the exhibit maps. No photos, aerial or otherwise. No te...

In the situation you describe you were obviously in the right. But then there is the young twerp who refuses to follow the instructions of his seniors...

Mr Cavell was a regular contributor to RPLS.com, and it's many iterations, at one time. His input was always valuable.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set your mind to it, providing that you have an endless supply of expendable labor.

That passage caught my eye. It seems like a ROW department should have a surveyor on staff, or at least a relationship with the organizations surveyor...

A big issue is that the seals are frangible. Which means that if you open the unit, and don't also replace the seals, its not going to be as water res...