Will the owners agree to resolve the ambiguity?

Sounds more like a piece of junk than a "monument." Monument to what? Is this "monument" referred to in a legal description of the land? Until this...

I think parts of this have been posted by linebender before. Probably notes from a university surveying course in the 70's before surveyors abandoned...

Some concepts are timeless even if ignored by moderns.

On the news they said somebody was pushing to reintroduce the grizzly bear to Utah. I'm not all that whippy about it. Don't wish to run into one su...

That's what happened around the original settlements in my little valley. After the GLO survey and the patents there was a flurry of deeds made out t...

Talking to the owners and former owners is great evidence of what fences are or were. One tool probably not used enough by surveyors is their mouths,...

The seller is in the cemetery from something like 1910. Still owns the bed of the lake. He didn't know he reserved it but what the heck, the deed is...

Most of the chains in my local townships measured about 66.5 to 66.7 feet. I've seen notes in several places where later GLO guys measured across a p...

I did it for ten years mostly as sub contractor. I enjoyed doing it, solving the problems and seeing things being built that I measured out. The mon...

Minute7.comWorks with Quickbooks Pro and Android. I have it working but the only one to keep track of around here is me so not all that much experien...

I've got TM 9.83 running on a new Windows 7 Pro (64bit). Works fine, much better than on the old XP Pro computer.

I been using Dynaviews since the beginning. Allows you to format the drawing in sheetview and also to do shading of certain layers.I use TBC to produ...

My Trimble land survey dealer thinks TerraModel has been discontinued as it is no longer listed in their land survey catalog. I checked and it is sti...

I can understand why they did what they did.What I don't agree with is why they keep dividing public land, say in Alaska, by the same methods. It see...

It just shows why the public shouldn't waste their money on surveying.

I don't just jump on fences. I try to follow the law and find the established boundary.You at least should read this Utah case.Bahr v. Imus, 2011 UT

I don't know the law in Kansas. But from a Utah law perspective Cow's problem is not one of interpretation of the deed or if the line is in the deed’...