Monthly Archives: June 2026

Surveyors on site II

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Well, I do have to give them credit…they said theyd be there today and…they were there today.

Apparently two of the corners aren’t an issue but they’re having to work a bit on the remaining two. I’m hoping this is all wrapped up by Friday so I can go up there this weekend and look at my lovely new property borders.

Surveyors on site

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Well, they said the surveyors would be out to day and it looks like they were.

And they even noticed the camera.

As mentioned earlier two of the four corners are marked with some somewhat-official markers – a recent modern marker, and another corner has the original cap from the General Land Office in 1915. THe surveyour-boss emailed me to say that the other two are the ones theyre going to have to ‘calculate’. Since the property lines run N-S and E-W. I cant imagine it would be anymore difficult than a) go to known corner b) travel XXX yards in a straight line on the compass bearing. Where you stop is your corner. But, what do I know……..

And that wasnt the only visitor today. The local fox came by and appears to have brought a lunch with him….

Boundaries

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Heard b ack from the surveyors today. Theyre gonna start tomorrow.  I hope they know what theyre getting themselves into. I’ve managed to find all four ‘corners’ of the property but its a mix of official, semi-official, and I-think-thats-a-marker.

Corner #1: original marker from the  1915 Land Office survey
Corner #2: modern and official marker of recent installation
Corner #3: cairn of rocks with a sawed of t-post painted blue
Corner #4: fallen tree with a thin metal plate with notes scrived into it indicating border of property

Now, of those four only one could reasonably be considered definitive. Thus, the need for something beyond doubt. I have no intentions of doing anything close enough to the borders of my property that I’d be worried about encroaching onto my neighbor’s property. But I need to know so I can make sure the neighbors don’t encroach onto mine.

I’m hoping these guys will be done and have some info for me at the end of the week. Then its a matter of going up there, following the coords they give me, and seeing exactly where the boundaries of my property end and the neighbors begins.

Also, it’ll be nice to have a final bill as well. I’ve set aside a bunch of money in case of a ‘worst case scenario’ in terms of the amount of work they have to do. Hopefully, they can bring it in for less. But, until I know for sure I have to hold off on big spending so I have the money free to pay these guys.