Topic: Great property description!!

[Mark]

Check out this description!!

Beginning at the center 1/4 corner of Section 11, Township 27 South, Range 20 East, Hillsborough County, Florida for Point of Beginning: run thence North 89°35'50" West along the East-West 1/4 line of said Section 11, a distance of 881.79 feet; thence run South 53°37'51" East 824.52 feet to a point 50 feet from the centerline of a 20 foot pavement for Morris Bridge Road; run thence North 36°22'09" East, 50 feet from and parallel to the said centerline a distance of 368.15 feet, run thence North 00°08'12" West along the North-South 1/4 line of said Section 11, a distance of 186.29 feet to the POB.
 

Question. Where exactly is the "center 1/4 corner" ?

[Dinosaur]

The center of the section ie: ne cor of the sw 1/4, nw cor of the se 1/4, sw cor of the ne 1/4 or se cor of the nw 1/4.

[Mark]

That's what they meant but there is no such thing as a "center 1/4 corner".

Guarantee ya that wasn't a surveyor that wrote that description.

[Keith™]

Office jockey no doubt

[Dinosaur]

It must have been a Missouri surveyor, we get that call all of the time along with east, west, north and south 1/4 corners.  Sometimes they will call it out the center of section which is a bit better terminology.

[Mark]

Well I was just shown, in a survey book the term "center 1/4 corner". I'll shutup now!!  Apparently it's a very old term. First for me though.

[Mark]

Office jockey no doubt

Usally it's an attorney. I'm an office jockey, I and can do better than that.

[Bob Garner]

"to a point 50 feet from the centerline of a 20 foot pavement for Morris Bridge....."  Well, that sounds like it's really tied down!

"for Point of Beginning"??


Bo

[Mark]

"to a point 50 feet from the centerline of a 20 foot pavement for Morris Bridge....."  Well, that sounds like it's really tied down!

And that's not my typo either!!

Let's hope they don't move the pavement!!

[Dinosaur]

At least it is not to the center of a creek channel or to a hash mark on the north side of a 36" Live Oak tree.  Some of the old descriptions from the old Spanish land grants can get quite hairy to work from.

[Dent Cermak]

Did you know that there is really no such thing as a "Township". That's not what the "T" stands for. "Township" is a lawyer thing.

[Mark]

Well how come when you read the original notes they call it a "Township" line?

[Mark]

For example . . .

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[Dent Cermak]

Because this guy had hung around lawyers too much. The "T" stands fot "Tier". That's the way they are represented on the GLO plats, eventhough they may refer to then as "townships" in the notes. It was a common term even then. Kinda like Major and Minor contours. No such thing, but that's what some call them.
Plus note that your page is from 1882. This is a resurvey or a retracement. The original GLO's are early 1860ish. Somewhere in between it got corrupted. Many of the Missippi GLO's show Section 22, T 2 East, Range 5 North". And florida was laid out way before Mississippi.
Check the BLM Manual that I recently posted. It refers to the Tiers.

[Dinosaur]

I don't think I would argue the point Mark.  Dent has either got a new kidney stone that has him cranky or he finally passed something like a small porcupine and has now become frisky.  I think the latter though, welcome back Dent.  Besides that, I think I remember hearing something about that once and it does sound logical.