Any surveyors in the house?

[GeauxLSU]

Before I type my question all out, just curious if we have any.

 

[GeauxLSU]

 

[Glock 21]

Not a licensed surveyor but do have experience doing land surveying. Happy to try and answer your question if I can

 

[Plinker66]

Maybe some old surveyor added up and wrote down slope distances instead of horizontal distances

 

[GeauxLSU]

Not a licensed surveyor but do have experience doing land surveying. Happy to try and answer your question if I can

I think I figured out with the issue is. I'm looking to buy a place but it needs to be more than 10 acres. 10.01 is fine. 10.0 or less is not (>10.0 required to legally shoot). When I did the math on the above plat it came out to 10.02 acres. However that assumes it's 4 straight lines for the borders. It's not. 2 have VERY slight changes as you can see. I guess that is what is causing the slight drop in acreage.
That math is beyond me without knowing the angles.
Do you know how to compute acreage on the above tract?

 

[ARCman47]

I surveyed your mom's house last night.

You wasn't counting on seeing my bare white ass through the window was ya

 

[ARCman47]

I think I figured out with the issue is. I'm looking to buy a place but it needs to be more than 10 acres. 10.01 is fine. 10.0 or less is not (>10.0 required to legally shoot). When I did the math on the above plat it came out to 10.02 acres. However that assumes it's 4 straight lines for the borders. It's not. 2 have VERY slight changes as you can see. I guess that is what is causing the slight drop in acreage.
That math is beyond me without knowing the angles.
Do you know how to compute acreage on the above tract?

Man you on mod salary..pony up and get that 50 acre plot!

 

[Glock 21]

I think I figured out with the issue is. I'm looking to buy a place but it needs to be more than 10 acres. 10.01 is fine. 10.0 or less is not (>10.0 required to legally shoot). When I did the math on the above plat it came out to 10.02 acres. However that assumes it's 4 straight lines for the borders. It's not. 2 have VERY slight changes as you can see. I guess that is what is causing the slight drop in acreage.
That math is beyond me without knowing the angles.
Do you know how to compute acreage on the above tract?

Is there a reason you don’t trust the acreage shown on the plat?

IF THE PLAT IS TO SCALE you can divide it up into smaller square blocks and measure each the square footage of each to get the area. Actual survey would be the most accurate way but this is a pen and paper way.

Plat looks fairly dated so it would be in your best interest to get an updated survey completed before purchase. You would be shocked how off some can be.

In regards to shooting what the county has recorded for acreage is what they will go by not what you tell the local popo it is.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Is there a reason you don’t trust the acreage shown on the plat?

IF THE PLAT IS TO SCALE you can divide it up into smaller square blocks and measure each the square footage of each to get the area. Actual survey would be the most accurate way but this is a pen and paper way.

Plat looks fairly dated so it would be in your best interest to get an updated survey completed before purchase. You would be shocked how off some can be.

In regards to shooting what the county has recorded for acreage is what they will go by not what you tell the local popo it is.

I have an updated one (last December) it's virtually identical.
As far as distrusting it, there's been a lot of things happen with this property. Including a road that may or may not have been deeded to the county at one point that is no longer in use. It's hard to recreate the history. The main reason I was double checking it is because there are very slight differences in what is on the deed and what is on various surveys but everything is extremely close to that needed 10 plus acres. At one point it was a 10.11 acre property. Not sure where that square footage disappeared to.

 

[sniper22]

sledgehammer is a licensed, practicing surveyor