I'd settle for pictures of the stake, or the street car rails. If I were sharp enough to discover the old monuments, i'd be stunned. If i'm getting th...

I think you got a good deal of assistance from a Houston surveyor in this endeavor. If you ever find the remnants of Burton's fence, post some photos.

D Gregg was Darius Gregg, county surveyor, and possibly city surveyor. Like Bringhurst I think he held both offices at some point. Bringhurst was at s...

It's the economy of being able to juggle parcel accounts on a post-it note that probably deserves some credit here.

Okay I thought it ran south to midtown, the Holman survey. Do you recognize any surveyor's signatures in the dedication?

Kent McMillan, post: 379803, member: 3 wrote: Houston surveyors don't have any time to do any actual "research" and so a good, solid tax map like this...

Kent McMillan, post: 379783, member: 3 wrote: Except that the plat of the subdivision was prepared by the surveyor who laid it out, S.C. West, and so ...

I think your plat is South Side Buffalo Bayou, but the ordinance may cover a slightly bigger area. I feel like a postcard is in order here.

Kent McMillan, post: 379768, member: 3 wrote: There was no need to dimension the 50 ft. x 100 ft. lots since their sizes were common knowledge. well...

I think they hire kind of regularly. I see the ads from time to time.

I would say pockets are important, like Baja's vest, I wear the Seco 8603 for the number of pockets you can squirrel stuff away in.

If you are looking for roughly a 0.01' difference, try the measurement first thing in the am when there's just enough light to make sense of it all, t...

Kent McMillan, post: 379754, member: 3 wrote: The plat would appear to be generally undimensioned, aside from some street widths, unless you know that...

Tough to tell if the plat contains the errors, or the stake-out just got botched.

eapls2708, post: 378366, member: 589 wrote: The first step would be to try to determine the cause and precise location of the discrepancy along the ba...

I missed the coordinate sheet in the original op. Being able to see how the back irons fall in relation to the row control is an important bit of info...