Your geographical misconceptions

[LSLGuy]

@Ynnad

@Kron

In surveying, “monuments” don’t rule. We don’t stop looking just because a monument was found (much to the chagrin of those paying to have surveying done). All of the available evidence is considered; physical evidence, field notes of past surveyors, plats, deeds, records of survey… then the “best available evidence” is used to determine the boundaries in question.

I do not disagree. However, I think that in the case of the Four Corners Monument, the monument is the “best available evidence.”

On a tangent. I have a couple of pieces of property where the surveys were tied to monumented (Is that a word?) section corners. Both of these monuments have now been completely obliterated.

Then again there’s this post of mine from over 15 years ago:

How do large scale land surveys pinpoints precise state and national borders?

My wife was an attorney in Las Vegas 15-ish years ago. As the town grew out into the desert, land that hadn’t been surveyed in a hundred years suddenly became valuable for housing tracts. Two major brand-name builders (who hated each others’ guts) bought adjacent parcels of about a square mile apiece and began grading and leveling for construction of their latest marvels of soulless ticky-tack. That’s when they discovered their parcels had an overlapping area about 100 yards wide and the leng…