How Does A Land Surveyor Find A Property Corner
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
- This video shows how a land surveyor might go about locating a property corner. Also, some of the site challenges a land surveyor faces in recovering monumentation and some advice to property owners.
I've never known any surveyors who use blue for prop corners. We use orange. Pink for traverse nails. Blue when staking water and stm. Green for sewer.
Great video, I want to fence; do I just stretch a line from one end to the other. The engineer found the pins and determined the boundary. Any suggestions. Thanks
Nice thanks. Always wondered what type ofmagnetic detectors surveyors use. I need me one to find my peoperty spike's in the woods.
Will set you back around 900 bucks. Hire a surveyors
We have a property line that is shared with a vacant lot owned by a church. For some reason the care taker for the church has decided to make his garden against what he "THINKS" is the line. He also mows about 5-10 feet of our lot. Someone (probably him) has removed our corner marker. According to the county GIS our line is at least 10-15 feet into his garden. How accurate is the information on the County GIS website ? Is it concidered "Reliable" enough to use as a basis for a dispute over the boundaries ? I dont want to spend $500-$600 if it can be settled with the records of the County land office.
You can do this yourself, I have.
Your county records will show where the corners are with measurments from various landmarks. Or from other property boundaries etc. Once you find 1 corner, the others are easier to find..
Mine has the the property along with my neighbors but there arent any measuements.
@@ShyRage1 Thank you.
Nice videos. I too make videos like this in Australia!
I live on a corner and need 1 boundary marker found to put up a fence . I called around and hv been told $ 500- $800 to get a professional out to do it . Seems so expensive. I'll give this a try .
The only problem is that the spikes could have been moved/relocated at some point.
You should hire a surveyor, and why it costs so much is because to survey a lot you have to survey the entire lot we can’t just pop out and do one corner. It’ll save you thousands in the long run when you put the fence in the wrong spot
@@PuckADV nice try, surveyor
How do you confirm that plot measurements/distances are correct in a heavily wooded area like that?
We start with front corners that are in the open. Set up on one and locate the other. That gives us our barring . From there we will either cut to the next by means of the angel given on the plot plans from previous surveyors. Or we will set a traverse point. Set up on that and back sight out original point. And inverse between the prop corners which gives us our new angel to look for that corner. If we haven't already found it during our recon on the property.
But who plant those pin there?
So, how does one really find a property corner? My lot as platted in the late 1800's, even if they did mark the corners (which they didn't), that steel is long rusted away.
depends a little on where you are....but in the 19th century stones were most often used as monumentation.
I just found my grass behind my garage in alley dug up to reveal my property marker and I have no clue who dug it up or why.
I did it. I was looking for my car keys. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Surveyors need to tie into monuments within the entire plat to triangulate the lot they are working on, in a survey sometimes you have to find monuments thousands of feet away from the lot you are working on
Please let us know when you find your neighbor's bush.
@@mts7274 that would be awesome been trying for years
Where is the Corner of two intersecting Roads?? My Deed says "BEGINNING at Northeast Corner of " " and " " Roads....Where is the CORNER???
Often times, section "corners" lie right in the middle of two roads, aka an intersection. There can also be NE SE SW and NW corners of the right-of-way at intersections.
@@dave67npr that's also assuming the road was paved in the center of the R/W.
Blue?!?!
But you never found the corner?
Happens often, that’s why we get hired, corners don’t always exist
WHY DO THEY HAVE TO HIDE THEM
We don't hide them. Generally speaking - when Property Corners are set (depending on where you live & State Statutes / Rules & Reg.'s) at least an 18" rebar is placed in the ground with a "cap - or - tag" bearing the License Number of the REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR - and we put "flagging" around it (usually fluorescent pink or orange) as well a a 4ft tall "lathe" (or stake - if you will) all "flagged up" as well marked "PROP. COR." (Property Corner) - But over time, the stakes get pulled out of the ground by "whoever" - usually kids - and before you know it - you don't even know it's there. When the Surveyor leaves the "Site" - everything is very clearly marked for the Property Owner.....
I bet you get chiggers, ticks and poison ivy. That's rough.
They are set below ground to protect them from being disturbed. We have to do that because if you leave them sticking up, they will get hit and moved, usually by a lawn mower. When people ask me how to mark it so they can find it again, I recommend a piece of heavy pvc pipe left sticking up a few inches away from the actual marker.
@@greenbeans575 And if you work in Florida... snakes, alligators and the dreaded no-see-ums!😮
@@dave67npr What does the average land owner need to find the original markers? A metal detector? What are the options?
It’s best to leave the corner search and determination to the license professionals. There is a reason they have a license.
As a 23 year long surveyor I sort of agree. You can do the basics yourself. A metal detector like he is using runs about $900. You can use a coin finder type of detector but that will get you within the area. Not real accurate.
So all properties would have a steak in the ground?
Not necessarily. Some states don't require all corners to be marked, others do. And some get destroyed by construction or vandalism.
@@jpmacoo SO let me ask you. If one couldn't find records of markings anywhere, how does a surveyer company have this?
@@ShyRage1
Not really sure what you're asking here. But deeds and plans/maps/plats are recorded at either your county or municipality, depending on how it's done in your state. Also, not all states require plans to be recorded.
Subdivision plans are usually recorded. But if I survey someone's lot and prepare a plan, they may choose not to record it. I will have a copy, of course, and whoever the landowner chooses to give a copy to, will also have the plan, then.
If you're asking how surveyors determine where to put a survey monument when one doesn't exist, then that's a combination of research, fieldwork/measurement, calculations, evaluation, etc.
No surveyors will bury or put any meat into the ground. We normally set iron pins (iron rods) with wooden STAKES (not steak 🥩) near the pins so everyone can find the iron pins that are in the ground easier.
@@DMAneoth ah ok. My dumb butt was out there with my dog trying to sniff out the steaks. Instead of the metal detector, I used my dog because he loves steaks. SIlly me, now I know. Thank you for letting me know this. Phew.