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PLSS Diagonal 80 acre Patents in Oklahoma
Posted by loyal on January 19, 2018 at 2:59 amI came across this tonight:
I remember someone posting a Master Title Plat from Oklahoma showing some of these Patents some years back (it might have been on the old POB Board).
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
Loyal
thebionicman replied 6 years, 2 months ago 7 Members · 8 Replies- 8 Replies
I would love to find written instructions for the dependent resurvey of such an animal..
This intrigued me since I have never seen evidence of such…enough to begin a search of Master Title Plats in the Oklahoma Counties of Cimarron, Texas and Beaver. The ’panhandle’ is approximately 6 townships north of by 29 townships east of the Cimarron Meridian. By 1 AM last night I had viewed about one-third of the BLM’s Master Title Plats. I haven’t found any evidence yet of what was described. The text is ambiguous as to whether these patents were in the panhandle area or just the State of Oklahoma.
When I get my eyes uncrossed I will continue the search and report on my findings…
I kinda remember reading about some parcels shaped that way. What would be interesting is to know why someone decided that would be a good idea.
Someone with influence wanted a particular hunk of land where a river ran near diagonally?
I’d hate farmng it. We had some fields with irregular shapes and what Dad called “point rows.”
.I’ve put eyes on the Master Title Plat from every township surveyed from the Cimarron Base & Meridian (range 1 through 28 East & twp. 1 through 6 North; I did not look at the small sliver of twps. 1 South) and did not find any “diagonal” patents. I will continue to look in the rest of the State after my eye-transplants.. ?
I am guessing that “the manual” mentions them, I don’t remember.
They do exist. I have seen one or two. I think they were in New Mexico.
A survey of these would not be a dependent resurvey. Even the first survey of normal aliquot lines is not a resurvey.
I would think the way to survey them would be to connect the relevant aliquot corners.
I have not seen it in any of the editions i have, and Ive spent a lot of time looking. I’ve also not seen such a patent though they obviously exist.
The rub for me is that we have no legal method of creating such an animal, aside from a lot or tract. If you extend this to a full quarter (or worse a section) you collide with the parts and corners legally created upon aporoval of the survey.
I suspect if any glo office ever did this is was by (aren’t you) special instructions. It would be an interesting bit of research if anyone has an example.
I did survey a SW 1/2 of a Section once. It was patented whole then sold in diagonal halves. Lucky for me there was a hundred or so years of occupation.
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