@nate-the-surveyor?ÿ Lawsuit. Judge sided withe the self-made "Engineer". And now you know the rest of the story.

I had a guy come up to me once. He announced "I'm an engineer too". I quizzed him a little about what kind of engineering he did. Turns out he puts in...

FEMA has all the old FIRM maps archived. The benchmarks are described on them.?ÿ

@norm Their elevations are published on the USGS topo maps. However the datum they are based on is NAVD29. To check into them using GPS you have to co...

@shelby-h-griggs-pls I think you are right. I have gotten information from the USGS about the Corner evidence when they showed a BLM corner as being f...

@loyal They are on the USGS topos. Those show are too the foot. Once you convert them from NAVD 29 to NAVD88 the agree better with OPUS than the newer...

I went on to be a road building engineer. Our motto was survey it to a hundredth, design it to a tenth, and build it with a D9 Cat.

I was a fresh out of school engineer. The layout surveyor was an uneducated acholic. I helped him layout the piers for a rotating kiln with a 100 foot...

@rockethurricane That's was the 3805 wasn't it. HP sent us a chart that had a correction never you added to the readout and a correction factor you ap...

The good point of the new FIRM is the BFEs are to the foot and not tenths of a foot. ?ÿ

@holy-cow The times the Sheriff has been called on me, I just tell the Deputies, "I know whose property I'm on you better know where you're at. A clou...

@dave-karoly Prescriptive Easements, Adverse Possession, and Acquiescence are legal terms. Of course if there's no argument between Landowners they wo...

@chris-bouffard That's the textbook answer, but I have seen where a Judge has granted a Prescriptive Easement, and Adverse Possession?ÿ by Acquiescenc...

@chris-bouffard The access also has to be open and notorious to establish a Prescriptive Easement.

@chris-bouffard I believe access for recreational endeavors do not qualify for prescriptive Easements. If he drove his cows across your property or hi...

@rover83 My experience is to perfect either a Prescriptive Easement or Adverse Possession. You must have a Judge's decision. I'm unsure on how a Quiet...

@norman-oklahoma I agree, that's why I replied they may have more surveying to do for a Prescriptive Easement.