FL Land Surveyor case studies
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The Florida Professional Surveyor and Mapper license is issued by the Florida Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers, which the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) administers under Section 472.007, Florida Statutes. The credential authorizes the "practice of surveying and mapping," defined in Florida law to include measuring, locating, establishing, or reestablishing lines, angles, elevations, and natural and manmade features; monumentation and remonumentation of property boundaries and subdivisions; photogrammetric control; preparation of descriptions for legal instruments of conveyance; and preparation of subdivision planning maps and record plats under Chapter 177, Florida Statutes. The FL Land Surveyor case studies are 5 cases and about 3,259 words.
1The 0.18-Foot Conflict at the Plat Corner
Bayshore Estates, Plat Book 12, Page 34 (1962), Lot 7, Block 3, calls for a 5/8-inch iron rod at the northeast corner, N 45°12'30" E, 100.00 ft from the southeast corner. You find a 5/8-inch iron rod with no cap at a position 0.18 ft south and 0.09 ft west of the plat-computed corner.
672 words, about 3 min2The Lost Quarter Corner in a Golf Course
Section 14, T43S, R25E, was subdivided by the GLO in 1873. The north quarter corner was called for as a 3-inch cypress post with a mound and pits.
640 words, about 3 min3The Seawall That Is Not the Water Boundary
Lot 4, Block A, Sunset Isle, is a Gulf-front parcel. The 1972 deed bounds it on the west by "the mean high water line of the Gulf of Mexico"; the east line is 100.00 ft from the east right-of-way of Gulf Boulevard.
653 words, about 3 min4The Plat That Cannot Be Recorded Friday
You are preparing the record plat for Palmetto Grove, a 38.6-acre, 52-lot single-family subdivision. The boundary traverse closes 0.14 ft in 3,100 ft with 12 seconds of angular misclosure; the interior traverse closes 0.05 ft.
595 words, about 3 min5The Deed Description That Calls to a Missing Monument
A 1990 deed to a 12.4-acre parcel reads: "Commence at the NW corner of Section 9, T34S, R22E; thence S 12°14' E, 214.6 ft to a concrete monument; thence S 78°32' W, 1,320.0 ft to a 4-inch concrete monument on the east right-of-way line of County Road 41; thence N 12°14' W, 410.0 ft; thence N 78°32' E, 1,320.0 ft to the point of beginning; LESS the east 100 ft of the west 200 ft." The first concrete monument is missing. The 1988 surveyor's bound field book, filed with the county, records that the monument was a 4-inch by 12-inch concrete monument with a brass cap, tied 6.2 ft S 48° W of a power pole and 18.4 ft east of the centerline of a 24-ft graded road; it states "bearing base: power pole to section corner." Your search finds the power pole and road centerline; the section corner is a 1940s concrete monument 0.3 ft from its record position.
699 words, about 3 min