House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
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1. Minor problem in the grand scheme of things, but I can't seem to find my front yard ....
More accurately, my neighbor and I have pleasantly and peacefully lived next to each other for 24 years, and we can't figure out where her yard ends and mine begins so we can replace the ancient fence on the back of our lots. She says the old fence behind her backyard was in the wrong spot, and wants to check.
The deed says"
"Beginning at the iron pin on the easterly side of SH 470 feet northerly, as measured along the easterly side of SH, from the intersection of the easterly side of SH with the northerly side of GHT, said point of beginning also being the at the line dividing lots 25 and 26.
But I can't find any pin. Am I starting at the wrong point down the street? It seems clear he is not using the street centerline, but is the usual practice lines "A" intersection at the grass and curb, or lines "B" intersection further out. I don't think it is on the corner "radius" at point "C".
2. There are two small hills on the easterly side of street SH. Am I accurate enough measuring "up and down" the hills, or try to get a correction so I am measuring an "ideal flat plane" as our lots are shown in the county plot plan?
More accurately, my neighbor and I have pleasantly and peacefully lived next to each other for 24 years, and we can't figure out where her yard ends and mine begins so we can replace the ancient fence on the back of our lots. She says the old fence behind her backyard was in the wrong spot, and wants to check.
The deed says"
"Beginning at the iron pin on the easterly side of SH 470 feet northerly, as measured along the easterly side of SH, from the intersection of the easterly side of SH with the northerly side of GHT, said point of beginning also being the at the line dividing lots 25 and 26.
But I can't find any pin. Am I starting at the wrong point down the street? It seems clear he is not using the street centerline, but is the usual practice lines "A" intersection at the grass and curb, or lines "B" intersection further out. I don't think it is on the corner "radius" at point "C".
2. There are two small hills on the easterly side of street SH. Am I accurate enough measuring "up and down" the hills, or try to get a correction so I am measuring an "ideal flat plane" as our lots are shown in the county plot plan?





RE: House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
RE: House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
Looks to me like the street has been paved over a few times, so the pin could be under a bunch of asphalt. Since the pin is not a utility access, they may not have cared that it got covered over.
Or, it was pulled out the last time they prepped for a repaving.
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I don't think the street's been widened since then.
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And who knows when the road was originally done, then redone?
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RE: House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
We are in an unincorporated part of the county, not inside any local city limits, and the only other property map I've found just has "lines" for each road and plat outlines. (That map doesn't have double lines for roads.)
RE: House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
RE: House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
Also, sometimes pins are hard to find. They sink into the ground and stuff. See if you can rent a metal detector.
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RE: House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
(eng-tips being presumably more about eng/topo surveying than legal surveys).
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RE: House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
RE: House Lot: Can't Find (Old) Surveyor's Pin
But you probably want to settle this amicably, so go metal detecting, or hire a surveyor.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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