Posted by paul on October 15, 2010 at 05:43:48 from (66.44.132.41):
In Reply to: O/T Land Measurements posted by fergienewbee on October 15, 2010 at 00:46:01:
You would need to read the right of way/ easement that the road has on your property. Over 50% are about centered on the property line, but many many are not, and so you could be way off assuming the middle of the road is the centerline.
A 40 year feud here: The road easement was 100% on our property meandering through. Road was moved to the property edge, but still 100% on this property. After construction started, the fella running the bulldozers decided the road angle was too sharp, and he could build the road within the right of way but not centered on the engineer's right of way. A bit of notes were made of this in a survey record, kinda on the margins, not really properly recorded. 10 years later the survey company had a fire and all records were lost.
Today, no one in power can figure out where that property line is, and simply measure from the center of the road.... Which is incorrect as things _really_ are. We lost about 3 acres from that 'simple' solution the bulldozer operator made.
So, many times the center of the road is the property line, but it would be wrong to just assume it is so.
Where you need to start is at a cornerstone, which are placed in a grid pattern across the land. This is the correct place to start.
If you have a very old property, it is possible it will reference landmarks rather than cornerstones.
If you truely want this right, you need to start right - with the property deed and it's descxription of where to start!
Me, I'd go by the old fence line, likely several generations have gone by that, and no one will take offence if you use that as your marker. In many cases, an old fence like that can be the legal boundry, rather than the legal description, if everyone has used and accepted that fence line for decades and decades.
You should have an easier time finding the old fence/ posts than in figuring out the actual deeded property line. And, you will upset less people, do less 'boat rocking' if you just use that fenceline as your border.
I would not use any sort of consumer GPS and try to base a property line on that. While they are really neat; they are not accurate enough to stand on their results - you could really open a can of worms in the neighborhood by going that route.... And you would be deemed wrong by any court of law to use such methods to determine your borders.
IMHO, find the lod fenceline and follow that!!!!
Anything else is going to be costly or inaccurate.
Be one with the fence, and have happy neighborhood!
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