re: Best Way to Mark Property LInes

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or OP baw could consult a gov FEMA flood map

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Yeaaahh, stop while you're ahead dude. Your last 2 replies to me have clarified that you're out of your element. It's getting to be a little bit of 2nd hand cringe.

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Yeaaahh, stop while you're ahead dude. Your last 2 replies to me have clarified that you're out of your element. It's getting to be a little bit of 2nd hand cringe.

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so I need a BFE if I’m outside a flood zone?

Can you gps nerds not run a line with a compass?

The Base Flood Elevations should be determined by the Floodplane Manager. Also maps do change and the Manager is the first to receive notice of these changes. I know several non professionals who used old maps and now are paying a lot of money for their mistake.

Local governments, City or Parish, can have a higher requirement than FEMA's number on a map. This is called freeboard but everyone knows this.

You still need the surveyor to set the elevation monument if you have a BFE or BFE + Freeboard requirement at your building site.

Another bit of info. if you are in zone A your flood insurance goes down every foot you go above the BFE. These measurements are recorded to the nearest 10th of a foot but FEMA rounds them to the nearest foot so if you are 0.6' above the BFE you get credit for being 1.0' above. I recommend to home owners building go a minimum of 1.6' above the BFE and even more if you can.

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so I need a BFE if I’m outside a flood zone?

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Every square foot of property in La. has a flood zone. Some have elevation requirements and some do not.

Hijack if i may.
What paint to use to mark trees on wooded property line.

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What paint to use to mark trees on wooded property line.

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Nelson boundary paint, scuff outer loose bark off and your marks will last longer.

But these sophisticated baws might probably suggest you call Chip Foose to paint yer trees.

Hijack:

How far off a property line do you place your fence?

I’d use OnX or Land Glide AP. Both are very accurate. Then t-posts.

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Good luck pulling that line tight enough at over 600' to get it off of short grass.

Not to mention, if theres any wind that line willl sway all over the place.

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Well. Don't tell anybody. but my sons and i did it over the length of a 1/4 mile pasture fence and the barb wire we strung to set the post line was tight enough to play like a fiddle. Tractors make fine anchors for the ends of the line.
Yes, a transit or spotting scope would have worked too but we didn't have one.

Survey is only answer. It'll cost you more doing it yourself. The PLS will verify those monuments are actually your corners before staking a line. And there are cases where a monument is not a property corner but rather a witness corner. Anything above ground can be disturbed. Have it done professionally, and maybe not even by the prior PLS.