We recently purchased some remote property, and while snowmachining in and around the area this past weekend, we came across some old property markers. They were just posts in the ground and had a piece of tin nailed to them that contained the name and address of the owner. In reviewing documents from the Recorder's office, etc. there are no properties in the area in which these two markers are located (two different spots, two different owner names). I even did a search on properties with the given names and neither search showed these people to have property in this area. Has anyone ran into this before??
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During some of the remote staking programs the potential leasor staked out their parcel with a post and metal tag, then went back to DNR with the dimensions and location of their parcel. After it was approved by DNR they had to get a survey done. The surveyor would at that time set a permanent monument near the post and establish 3 bearing trees to help locate it. If there is no monument, it is not a property corner. It is in all probablility a claimants staking corner. Ask DNR to see if the name was at onetime a leaseholder for a remote or Open to Entry parcel.
A lot of people staked land and then let it go back to the state rather than pay for a survey.
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What is the general area? Talkeetna, Petersville, Eureka??We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home; in towns and cities; in shops, offices, stores, banks anywhere that we may be placed
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The property is up the Yentna River..... I bet these markers are a result of what was described below - staked property let back to the state. I will check with DNR on them and see what kind of records they have. I know they do not belong to a registered surveyor as (small world) one of the posts belongs to an acquaintance of the company I work for and his careet path never led him into the surveying field. I have tried to reach him since discovering this but, like many other Alaskan's at the moment, he is outside enjoying some heat in his sun.
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Bet they are old homestead land that was never prove up on they are all over out here from the west side of Beluga to the Tal. We were the fourth ones to file on our land a lot of land out here was open to homesteading in the '70's thru the '90's.Chuck
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If you have a last name, and by being legitimately owned by someone, taxes would be paid every year....you can go here and check it out...but you'll need name..or lot # to get the right results.
http://www.matsugov.us/myproperty/We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home; in towns and cities; in shops, offices, stores, banks anywhere that we may be placed
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Corners?
Try this site. If you can find the surveyed lot, there are programs that will help convert the corners to GPS coordinates and then find the monuments or rebar.
http://gis.matsugov.us/landman_external/viewer.htm
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Originally posted by aksnowmo View PostTry this site. If you can find the surveyed lot, there are programs that will help convert the corners to GPS coordinates and then find the monuments or rebar.
http://gis.matsugov.us/landman_external/viewer.htmWe do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home; in towns and cities; in shops, offices, stores, banks anywhere that we may be placed
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Originally posted by aksnowmo View PostTry this site. If you can find the surveyed lot, there are programs that will help convert the corners to GPS coordinates and then find the monuments or rebar.
What programs convert to GPS coordinates? I've got the platt for my area and I need to reroute a trail and want to keep it off of anyone's lot. Try as I might, I could not find their lot corners.
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Originally posted by NRick View PostWhat programs convert to GPS coordinates? I've got the platt for my area and I need to reroute a trail and want to keep it off of anyone's lot. Try as I might, I could not find their lot corners.We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home; in towns and cities; in shops, offices, stores, banks anywhere that we may be placed
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Michael is right on the money. It's most likely posts from an original staker that didn't get approved or didn't have their survey done.
As far as plat maps being nothing more than a surveyor following a needle compass through the woods..nothing could be farther from the truth.
Yes, in the days before electronic distance meters, they used steel tapes for distance. Their line of sight was done with a transit and their bearings were based off of solar observations. I have recovered stone monuments in the Takotna area surveyed in the 1910's that were less than 1 meter off of our calculated GPS coordinates. I have retraced lines in that area that matched within .5' of my electronic distance meter over a mile and they measured it with a steel "chain". Just like today, there were good surveyors and bad surveyors and quality varies. Yes, boundaries have been marked by staff compass and steel tape in a few areas, but these are extremely rare in Alaska.
State surveys like OTE's and remote staking programs should have the lat and long on corner one of the lot, or corner 1 of lot 1 on a group lots, show on the recorded plat. If not that data is available from DNR. It's simple calculations to find the lat and long of the other corners from this. You can either calculate it out longhand or simply use the functions in your GPS to plot a line from corner 1 to corner 2 using the bearing and distance shown on the plat.
Surveyors were not required to brush out the lines on these types of state surveys so don't spend much time looking for the lines. Get in the general area of the monument you are looking for and look for bearing tree tags. The bearing tree types are spelled out on the plats and will allow you to find the corners. The best best would be to go to Surveyors Exchange and rent a metal detector. It will help immensely in finding corners.Bunny Boots and Bearcats: Utility Sled Mayhem
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Originally posted by NRick View PostWhat programs convert to GPS coordinates? I've got the platt for my area and I need to reroute a trail and want to keep it off of anyone's lot. Try as I might, I could not find their lot corners.
http://crunch.tec.army.mil/software/.../corpscon.html
I agree about renting a magnetic locator. A good quadrant bearing compass might not hurt either.
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