I bought some ground in the late 1980s it had been split off of a larger farm in the 1930s. The deed showed that there was 98 acres in the piece I bought. I had farmed the ground for a few years. I only had eighty acres in crops and the balance was in pasture. So the 98 seemed correct.
So when I wrote up my offer to buy I just made the offer be for a curtain amount not a per acres deal. I got the farm with the understanding that I had to pay for any survey if it was needed to transfer. The county said it did not need to be surveyed. Flash forward to 2007. My one son wanted to build a house on the old farm building site, only a machine shed was left when I bought the land. So we had to have a survey done to split out that acreage.
The new survey was done on the whole parcel to get the split done. The county has changed the rules on land transfers. The new survey shows that there is 128 acres total in the tract. I am real good friends with the guy that owns the other piece that was split off all those years ago. We went to the ASCS office and had them run the boundaries of his entire farm not just the farm ground. His ground was the thirty acres short. The original land survey done in the 1800s was correct and the split in 1930s was off by 30 acres. His is really rough ground that covers a valley so you can't really see it all at once so it is hard to know what he had. The dividing line is a county road that has been there since the late 1800s. So the acreage was just mis calculated.
This goes to show that the age of the survey does not matter. If it is more that ten years old then it could be off.
The newer equipment to survey with is just amazing. The guy that surveyed the land showed me just how accurate the equipment is. He set two nails in the yard 200 feet apart using his equipment. We measured it with a steel tape. It was within a 1/4 of an inch. He said he might have moved some when he was holding the rod. Think how they used to have to drag chains and hold them level to get good measurements.
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