I'm totally serious. Describing land by 1/4's, 1/2's, 100 feet of ½ and such is and has been a disaster. It's always up for interpretation and surve...

I would try to discourage any client from making an aliquot part subdivision of any parcel. The whole system was invented to eliminate surveying. It...

307.7 Feet To POB, Not 32,000 FeetOn paper the center line of the W1/2 is a straight line. But, the position of the west quarter corner (150 feet un...

Beginning At A Point On The S Line Of Section 32,Yeah, you are right about that. It's just one of the poor things about the description but SOP where...

307.7 Feet To POB, Not 32,000 FeetYeah, if it's not already been done and marked, probably ugly and being a federal boundary.............................

307.7 Feet To POB, Not 32,000 FeetBig shift and closing corners. The brass cap, north quarter corner of section 5, might still be there under about 6...

At least they call to the section corners. Might as well left the distances out but hey, gotta show how smart you are (a section is a mile square an...

Tongue in Cheek (I just realized you are in Salt Lake City)Nate,With 12 wives and children you wouldn't need to work. You can only be legally married...

Had a well driller tell me once, "Charge a lot, make money and stay in business."It probably doesn't matter to this client whether you stay in busines...

I might be mistaken but I believe that in Colorado the surveyors got organized and took over their own board and separated from being combined with th...

Might be right, most university engineering programs expect trig to be completed in high school.

Unless the minerals are producing he is probably land poor. Land poor where I'm from is someone with a lot of land but not really all that much cash ...

Lucas ColumnI doesn't matter how precise you measure to some position, or how much you least square the heck out of it or tie it into some other point...

I've seen that a lot. If the clients "whatever" line doesn't make it to the old fence they will stake the boundary in the field. If the "whatever" l...

I posted such a survey last fall and it immediately got attacked mostly not for the content but because it didn't meet some ones drafting standards (g...