How A Surveyor Locates Your Property Lines

[Peteri Szerlagi]

How A Surveyor Locates Your Property Lines

from 3 years ago

https://youtu.be/MGpVJE8fc_A?si=D0z5oWnRHIso0if5

bottom line is - starting at the atlantic ocean - surveyors have
plotted out every square inch of land to the pacific coast - you mark
the starting point then break out your protractor and tape measure and
set a 2nd point - and just going - probably in a square grid pattern
more or less

its like drawing any map and setting up a travel route - you start at
1 spot - go to a 2nd spot - then go to a third spot - and then on and
on - then chain of interconnected spots ends up in a total map in the
end of the entire country

maybe we can give an example

A ----------- B
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C

there are 2 ways to describe a trip from point A to point B

1. from A go due east 1 mile to point B then go due south for 1 mile to point C

2. from point A go 'square root of 2' miles to southeast to get to point C

you can use these 2 different calculations to cross check your work
any time you are trying to figure out locations

and this is essentially what this surveyor was doing when he was
talking about 'recalculating' the boundary markers - maybe - pretty
sure - been a long time since we studied any of this