What would you do? Reject a whole township line?
Working on a survey and need section corners that are in highway ROW (not defined). County section corners have been put in about 15 years ago by a ??dependent resurvey?. A plat was filed by a private surveyor paid for by the county. It’s mostly proportion but doesn’t actually cite finding any hard evidence, they decided to use a few points and proportioned from there, maybe a third of the township.
So I’m working in the township to the west side of the township line which was resurveyed and finished in 1914 by GLO. Tracted all along the township line (east tier of sections). So I find lots of tract corners which are steel post with brass caps. This leads me back to the township line and so far I’ve found three hard corners along the township line and now that I’m tuned in will probably find more and probably all the corners could be put back using the proper procedures from real corner evidence.
Yesterday I dug up one of the original township corners ?? 3 inch post and cap under a gravel road intersection. So basically my evidence will show that ever section corner along the township line in the highway ROW is set in error. Since lots of other corners were set by proportion from these corners, probably the corners in a third of the township can be shown to be improperly placed.
Welcome to my world, I been telling the county for 15 years they needed to do things different and put a real licensed and qualified surveyor back into the county surveyor position. All I ever get back is there is no money for that, not since 1957. The corners were set from grant money from the state and feds. My county is a welfare county, its either money from elsewhere or none at all. They wasted it on the lowest bidder and contracting by a non qualified person to even know if they would get what they were supposed to. It still goes on like this to this very day.
What would you do? Maybe just file a survey with my findings and let it roll from there. Sort of a reject every section corner along a township line survey. This won’t get me any more work. County will probably stop even talking to me. If they see real professional work they think you are from Mars or something because its so different from what they are accustomed to.
Whatever!
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