Govermental Rectangular Survey?

[Mike Phillips]

Stuart -

Quick "Google" turned this up:

http://www.connerprairie.org/historyonline/survey.html

 

[Wayne Tomlinson]

That is correct. Florida does use the rectangular survey. I was trying to remember without looking it up and missed it.

Thanks for the reminder.


Wayne Tomlinson

 

[Thomas N. Morgan]

All of the states in US use the rectangular system except the 13 original colonies.

 

[Blueprint]

5 Acres. 466.69 western boundry measurement. I'm late to the party but I love this stuff.

 

[Jo Ann Meyer Stratton]

As the question was posed there are five parcels because there is a comma between each proportionate part of the section:


E 1/2, NE 1/4, SE 1/4, E 1/2, SE 1/2.

E 1/2 would be one 320 acre parcel

NE 1/4 would be one 160 acre parcel

SE 1/4 would be one 160 acre parcel

E 1/2 would be one 320 acre parcel

SE 1/2 would be 160 acre parcel

Now if the legal description was written E 1/2 NE 1/4 SE 1/4 E 1/2 SE 1/2 without commas that would be one parcel and the SE 1/2 could have thrown a kink into the equation because of the the distance from the section line to the diagonal line would have to be taken into consideration. However the final parcel falls into the southeast portion of that southeast half, away from the diagonal line so the size of the one parcel would be 5 acres more or less.

Going backwards with the legal without commas would be the SE 1/2 has 320 acres, half of that would be 160 acres, a quarter of that would be 40 acres, a quarter of that would be 10 acres and half of that would be 5 acres for the actual parcel. Dimensions of the parcel would be 660 feet more or less on the east and west and 330 feet more or less on the north and south.

Commas can make a huge difference in a legal description!

 

[Blueprint]

Dimensions of the parcel would be 660 feet more or less on the east and west and 330 feet more or less on the north and south.

Why did you figure 660 X 330 on 5 acres? Consistency? Used to those dimensions? Common sense over the years? Why not 466.69 X 466.69.? You are too smart Jo Ann. Would not do as I do, without your insight. Thanks.

 

[Jo Ann Meyer Stratton]

Because it is a propositional part of a section. The SE 1/2 would have dimensions of 5,280 M/L x 5,280 M/L x 7,467.05 M/L. The E 1/2 of that would have dimensions of 2,640 M/L x 2,640 M/L x 3,753.52 M/L x 5,5280. SE 1/4 of that would be 1,320 M/L x 1,320 M/L. NE 1/4 would be 660 M/L x 660 M/L. E 1/2 of that would be 330 M/L by 660 M/L.

All dimensions are more of less without an actual survey by a registered land surveyor and then there could be mitigating circumstances that could affect those dimensions. As the section was being surveyed 150 years ago, the survey crew got confused and miscounted their chains so the section is actually 5,260 x 5,280 or a non-registered individual decided to reset a section corner by using his 100' fishing line and set a section corner in the wrong place and every one since then has used the wrong section corner. Or some electrical engineer decided he was a college graduate so he know more about surveys from one semester than the registered surveyor who spend eight years in training and education, plus twenty years experience and decided to reset all the section corners--and some of the following surveys used those mathimatically correct but wrong procedural per the US GLO requirements section corners for some of the legal descriptions. Etc, etc, etc, etc. There are skippys in the survey profession too!!!

 

[Abester]

SE 1/2 would be 160 acre parcel

Then how much is in the SE 1/4?

 

[Jo Ann Meyer Stratton]

I posted wrong--the single parcel identified as the SE 1/2 would be 320 acres. A single parcel of SE 1/4 would be 160 acres.

A SE 1/2 would have 5,280 feet M/L along the south and east and 7,467.05 feet M/L from the northeast corner to the southwest corner of the section.

A SE 1/4 would be 2,640 feet M/L by 2,640 feet M/L.

 

[Howard Klahr]

mitigating circumstances that could affect those dimensions

Such as the curviture of the earth ... that is why there are hiatuses (a missing part or gap) If you look at townships on a large map, the do not line up directly in all cases.