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The Life
of a Survey Monument
Scene opens with background
music and butterfly flying over a country scene.
Survey field notes appear showing
the description of the monument that is being set in 1855.
Surveyors mark a tree and
set a wood post survey monument. As a timeline advances, the use of the
land changes over the years - a fence is built, cattle graze on the land
damaging the wood post, the tree grows taller, the survey mark on the
tree slowly disappears, a house is built on the property, lightening strikes
the tree and burns it to a stump.
Through time, the land boundary
becomes uncertain, and a request for a new survey is submitted. Using
current technology, evidence of the original monument location is recovered,
and a new stainless steel post is set. The land owner disagrees with BLM
over the land boundary when he discovers his home is partly on private land
and partly on public land.
Not the End.
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For more information:
Geographic Services, (BLM California website)
Cadastral Survey (BLM national website)
NOTE:
Monuments and surveying public lands: The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a way of subdividing and describing land in the United States. The PLSS typically divides land into 6-mile-square townships. Townships are subdivided into 36
one-mile-square sections. Sections can be further subdivided into quarter
sections, quarter-quarter sections, or irregular government lots. Normally, a
permanent monument, or marker, is placed at each section corner. Monuments are
also placed at quarter-section corners and at other important points, such as
the corners of government lots. Today permanent monuments are usually inscribed
tablets set on iron rods or in concrete. The original PLSS surveys were often
marked by wooden stakes or posts, marked trees, pits, or piles of rock, or other
less-permanent markers.
Source:
National Atlas of the United States® (Department of the Interior website)
BLM California homepage - www.ca.blm.gov |
