Any surveyors in the house?

[Glock 21]

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.

In the old days they pulled chain for measuring using plumb bobs for leveling going up or down slopes so accuracy really depended on how good the crew was. Showing a change of that amount would be pretty acceptable depending on how old the plat was showing 10.11.

As far as the road goes that would take some digging at the courthouse looking through old deeds and trying to figure out what happened.

Hopefully a licensed surveyor comes along and chimes in. I believe we have a few on here.

 

[Plinker66]

In the old days we’d cut it into triangles at the pins then calculate each triangle.

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[rumrunner55]

These are all straight lines with inflection points no curves on the property line so you should be able to break the area down in to triangles and hand calc it or cadd it up and measure digitally....your measured and recorded numbers are pretty off though like decimals off is fine but feet is not

 

[Boogerhook]

I wish our government had better things to worry about than a .046 acre discrepancy.

 

[Glock 21]

I wish our government had better things to worry about than a .046 acre discrepancy.

Our government can’t figure out what’s a chick and what’s a dude so throwing numbers at them is asking way to much.

 

[THREEJAYS]

Sadly I assume it’s hard to get two surveys that completely agree especially with hilly land I have had similar issues on some property that I own. Guess that is why it’s common to see +~- in adds

 

[dcline9163]

I just had a survey checked on 2.01 acres of property I'm buying in Alabama. I found 3 pins but could not find the 4th. It was a pretty simple piece of property. Surveyor came out last Friday and shot it, the 4th pin was not there he said too. Here's the kicker, neighbor next door's driving way was partially on my property not by much but it was. He initially said he wasn't worried about property line and it didn't matter to him, which to me was suspicious. Now I know why, he must have pull the pin. My surveyor put it back in, I told him I wasn't worried about it as long as he knew he had encroached on me and that it was against to pull up survey pins, of course he said he didn't but well you know. I did tell him I would be using that driveway some also. Had my surveyor make the line down that side and the backside, unbenounced I have about 15 rows of cotton back there too. Corner posts will be set and a fence up also.

 

[DirtySouth]

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.

Not licensed but I spent 17 years doing it, and spent many of days inside a deed room, as well as the field and office.

Surveyors don’t make land nor do they take land. They go by records, and recreate it based on that. That particular property has multiple breaks in the lines, and I would assume because it followed fence lines when it was cut out from the original property.

Get another Surveyor, and he will recreate the property based on the plats and deeds that are legal binding documents on record. He may show discrepancies, but he won’t stretch or shorten the lines.

That property won’t ever be 10 acres unless you buy a sliver from one of the adjoining owners.