Unless OPUS has been revised it won't process any file with data from more than two GPS days. I had one last year just 26 hours but it had data in th...

"Surveyors job is resolve ambiguity not create it."I agree 100% with that statement.I think many times the problem is non recognition that there is am...

You can preview the index, intro and a couple pages (explanation of pin cushion).Looks as if it is a long needed good book to me and I’ll buy it.This ...

I hear and understand. I've recommended many times that clients do not consolidate multiple lots of record into one parcel for the very reasons you h...

13S/14S. No closing corners.

I can certainly appreciate the concept of established old boundaries. Most of the landowners in Section 34 are fine with how things are. There is on...

I need to review the notes. I've looked before but not for some time now. There should be a topo call for a wash (swale) maybe 5 or 6 chains west of...

No road.

I encountered the multiple tax description problem about 5 years ago. I had done a boundary adjustment on a couple of 300 acre parcels. The township...

Say what you like about metes and bounds .....If your client won't pay you for the extra work you have alluded to, should you do it for free?I'm doin...

DaveYeah, Rocky Mountain Juniper just another name for a weed. They do make good fence posts and if all else fails a good place to get some shade on ...

DaveI have about 100 acres in rural Utah. About 20 acres covered with Rocky Mountain Juniper trees. I have long range plans and been taking out at l...

I've been on my county's planning commission for about two months. Hopefully I'll be able to keep my head. I went on the commission to try and get s...

Points out what an ALTA certification IS. You sign, you're wrong, you pay. Exactly what the contract is.

What I finally found (starting at GLO patent) was a survey done and recorded (as a notice to the public in the deed records) in 1981. Survey shows th...

At least when the section corners "moved" the surveyor didn't try to move all the lot lines in the town also. He just added and clipped the boundary....

The scanned plat is of a transcription in the recorders plats counter book. The real (original) plat is there but no way to run it through the scanne...