Calculate total square footage for irregular lot?

Break it into rectangles and triangles and total the area of each. Based on the drawing you will need an engineers scale and measure most of it. The circle part will be tricky. Not much help but this is how I do it.

Nice job!

Build a bigger storage shed!

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We did this instead, about four years ago.

I am a recently retired surveyor in several states who no longer has access to software to calculate the acreage but do have a few comments about the survey plat. While you can get close to the acreage the plat is missing some important information to calculate an accurate area.

Most states have similar minimum standards for property boundary surveys and this plat does not meet those standards. A few states do allow a "mortgage" survey which is used only by the lender and is useless for any other purpose.

If it is a boundary survey, problems I see are as follows:
1. A straight line consist of two parts, a bearing and a distance. The lines along the side of the proposed house have bearings and distance but the rear lines only have a distance.

2. To accurately draw out a curve several parts of a curve are required. In Louisiana they are chord bearing, chord distance, arc and radius. I see some blacked out information so it may be there.

3. The professional land surveyor shall set
monuments at all boundary or lot corners, including points
of curvature unless already monuments exist. These monuments have to be noted and described on the plat. You have five corners and only one monument listed.

This plat appears to be done by someone other than a licensed surveyor which is also against board rules.

Radius looks to be roughly 35'

While you are close, every radius along a cul de sac I have seen is an even foot and usually a multiple of five. Examples would be 35', 40', 45', 50'.

Surveyors don't want to be calculating things using odd numbers for a radius.

Just a note to the cad jockeys, all distances are rounded off to two decimals and sq. foot doesn't have any decimals.

You guys saying there's no bearings are missing things...

d ' " is degree minute second.

Then those are on then angled perimeter lines from the arc.

I totally understand and agree with you. I am an LSI going to sit for my state test in October. To really calculate this, we need more info.

I just drew this up based off what I saw. I agree the radius is very odd, but that was the only way I could get remotely close to the 50.25, assuming the back lines are 90°.

I'm guessing this is a snippet of OP's lot from the subdivision plat just to show his layout. I hope the subdivision plat shows the curve table and bearing along back lines.