# Your geographical misconceptions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-misconceptions/929294 "2020-12-30T20:58:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 740
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-misconceptions/929294/740 "2021-03-22T15:44:16Z")
> [@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?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-large-scale-land-surveys-pinpoints-precise-state-and-national-borders/280537/11): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-misconceptions/929294)._