re: Surveyor Help

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OnX uses county/parish assessor lines, which are laughably bad

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It isn't easy to mash together 10,000 individual surveys and neighborhood plats...I did it for years in the 90s with primitive tech. But I will say the assessor maps are generally relatively accurate, because you kind of have to get it right in terms of how properties abut each other. Not perfect to the foot, but unless someone filed an incorrect plat, pretty good. I can't speak for every parish/county though.

Cool.

I'm a mapping guy. If you get me that legal description I can tell you exactly how much property you're supposed to have. Like someone else said - the +/- associated with listed acreage is supposed to account for a few acres here or there and unless the surveyor is a dip (which I've worked with a few) their modern work is going to result in more accurate numbers. I'm betting the attorney realized this info is going to cost his client money so they're trying to find a way out.

Easy to read a legal description and determine acres. HERE, land was surveyed into sections (640 acres) then broke out from that.

My area was surveyed in 1872 when is was still considered Indian Territory.
Iron pins were drove in the corners of each Section and are still to be found today.

In the Library of Congress there is a journal of the survey crew that did this area. In it are the descriptions of the lay of the land, the wildlife encountered,
the species of trees on each tract, and encounters with hostiles.

If I have a property line dispute on any of my ranches (and I have). I wont' go with anything but dragging chains on the level. GPS and lasers have caused screwups from here plumb to the Indian Meridian which is the North -South base line (reference point) for this State.

East of the Mississippi may not have as solid reference points, I don't know.