Topic: Great property description!!

[Dent Cermak]

got a clown surveyor in our office that wants us to start labeling stuff "right".
Looked it up in Black's Legal Dictionary, BLM Manual ang my trusty Syrvey text book from college. The Bum is right, but his plan won't get passed the attorneys.

[Dinosaur]

If he has the stamp, let him have the descriptions any way he wants them.  If they don't fly you get paid twice.  I've about let go of taking that kind of stuff personal and save it up for when I know I'm right and am forced to put out work I know is wrong.

[Dent Cermak]

I just hate doing anything twice, especially the second time is so unnecessary.

[Dinosaur]

Oh, GAWD! Help me please . . . I see my own words coming from Dent's keyboard

[Dent Cermak]

DADDY???

[Mark]

Haven't looked it (Tier) up yet Dent but check this out.



trying hard -not- to eat crow twice in the same thread

[Dinosaur]

DADDY???

I may be a certified (or would that be certifiable?) GEEZER, but I'm not quite that old yet . . . However I once heard rumors of a long lost uncle supposedly left in the St. Joseph, Missouri State Asylum sometime during the 40's . . .

[Dinosaur]

Regarding the great "Tier vs Township" debate . . .

According to our R.L.S., a TIER is a correction line similar to one of the Principal Meridians only running East-West.  This is what we called a BASELINE in Colorado, but that is obviously a more modern terminology.

Is he right?  I don't know, but consider this - he brought the field crew in today because they found ticks on their clothes . . .

[daron]

I was told that a township is a 6 mile square area. That terminology alone gets messed up in the Northeast, where they call any small town of any size, a township.

[Mark]

I was told that a township is a 6 mile square area. That terminology alone gets messed up in the Northeast, where they call any small town of any size, a township.

A township is a 6 mile square (not exactly 6 miles but that's another story) when referring to the PLSS.

[ http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/boundaries/a_plss.html ]

[daron]

You have a confusing job.

[Dinosaur]

I think around Boulder, Colorado where a baseline and a principal meridian intersect, there are a few townships less than a mile wide.  Some of the sections in that area look more like kites than squares.

[Mark]

You have a confusing job.

This isn't a -real- hard one but you get the idea.

A lot BEGINNING 172 1/2 feet South and 15 feet
East of the Northwest corner of the East One-half
(E 1/2) of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4) of the
Northwest Quarter (NW 1/4) of Section 2, Township
29 South, Range 18 East, run thence South 472 1/2
feet; thence run East 630 feet; thence run North
472 1/2 feet; thence run West 630 feet to POINT OF
BEGINNING.

[Dent Cermak]

Then there's the fun of units like varas, poles rods, chains etc. one deed that I had to plot up began at "the tree where John killed the Bear" and ran through the point "Where John is buried".

[Dinosaur]

And for the guys who like crunching numbers:
All that part of the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section . . . described as follows:
The East 66 feet of the North 20 acres of said Quarter lying South of the established Right-Of-Way for Clay County Highway "CC" . . . EXCEPT that part in roads.