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property markers
- Thread starter newuser
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This is what I posted in response to another forum member. If it's just for your own monuments, then this doesn't apply.
Don't mean to put a damper on this, but as a Registered Land Surveyor, I would advise you to be careful about finding property monuments for friends or someone else. I have seen a lot of costly errors by property owners thinking they found the correct monuments and built fences, sheds etc., on their neighbors property. You might find a piece of pipe or rebar, but without having a plat or a surveyor's certificate of the property and an accurate way of measuring between the monuments, you are just guessing that you found the actual monument. How do you think your friend would feel if the iron you found and that he based his improvements on was not the property monument and it ended up costing him hundreds or thousands of dollars to correct? Plus, it would cost him the original survey expense.
Don't mean to put a damper on this, but as a Registered Land Surveyor, I would advise you to be careful about finding property monuments for friends or someone else. I have seen a lot of costly errors by property owners thinking they found the correct monuments and built fences, sheds etc., on their neighbors property. You might find a piece of pipe or rebar, but without having a plat or a surveyor's certificate of the property and an accurate way of measuring between the monuments, you are just guessing that you found the actual monument. How do you think your friend would feel if the iron you found and that he based his improvements on was not the property monument and it ended up costing him hundreds or thousands of dollars to correct? Plus, it would cost him the original survey expense.
Monuments (Property markers) are set at the location of boundary corners of lots or parcels of land. Eastern US property was originally described by metes and bounds (e.g.- from oak tree 200 rods to granite boulder), while western US property was surveyed by using the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), which is the Section-Township-Range system with townships consisting of 36 sections of land each section being 1 mile by 1 mile. Monuments can be different objects, but usually are ferrous metal pipe or rebar. If it was set recently, it also should have a plastic or aluminum cap on top of the pipe or rebar with the surveyor's registration number and the company name. Hope I didn't ramble on too much!
Deusdigger
Member
newuser said:
Stick a piece of re-bar in the ground and check the id numbers in the frequency that you are using and then notch everything within about 5 of that number. It will be in the low end of id numbers, I found one last week by sound only and it was in the iron range so it had to be below #10 id.