Section corner monument moved about 1.3 feet
While looking for something else today I found a corner report for a south quarter corner that now has a 5/8″ iron bar reportedly 1.25 feet north and 0.37 feet west of the 1/2″ iron bar that had been obliterated by highway reconstruction. This was reported almost exactly three years ago by a quality survey firm. I can assure you they doubled checked numerous monuments that existed prior to the highway work before stating what has happened. They felt obligated to accept the monument as now being the corner monument. I’m not going to make a statement here, pro or con.
Someone providing survey services for the DOT work screwed the pooch big time. This isn’t out in the boonies. This is an area of a city that is rapidly expanding along that route. The highway work was probably in the range of four or five years back. I am familiar with the bar that was present prior to that time and have used it numerous times in three of the four possible directions over the decades.
My current task is to relocate tract corners that, in theory, should tie back to the section line but are a portion of a platted lot in a subdivision. The lot was the site of a new hotel and convention center with parking areas and new side streets and utilities brought to the site. The tract I’m working with is one corner of the original lot that was left out with the hope a restaurant chain would want to put a new building on it. I’m almost positive all monuments set nearly ten years ago have been obliterated, so this should be fun. There have been at least four other survey firms involved on that lot since I was there last.
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