NV Land Surveyor case studies
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The Fundamentals of Surveying (FS) exam is the NCEES computer-based examination that NCEES describes as generally your first step in the process to becoming a licensed professional surveyor (P.S.). NCEES states it is designed for recent graduates and students who are close to finishing an undergraduate surveying degree from an ABET-accredited program. The NV Land Surveyor case studies are 5 cases and about 3,738 words.
1Recovered Granite Stone Versus a Fifty-Year-Old Fence
Your firm is retracing the south boundary of a 160-acre parcel in Elko County. The 1889 GLO plat places the south quarter corner of Section 14 at 2,640.00 feet north of the section corner on the baseline, on a line bearing N 0 degrees 06 minutes W.
763 words, about 4 min2A Curve Stakeout That Is 'Close Enough for a County Road'
A county road project in Lyon County specifies a 500.00-foot-radius horizontal curve, delta = 48 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds right, PI at station 143+27.50, with centerline stakes at 100-foot arcs from the PC. Your party chief sets the instrument on the PC, backsights the PI, zeros the circle and turns deflection angles.
741 words, about 4 min3A Blanket Gas Easement and an Encroaching Block Wall
Your firm has an order for an ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey of a 12.4-acre commercial parcel in Clark County supporting a lender's refinance. The requested Table A items are 1, 2, 3, 6(a), 8, 11, 13, and 18.
732 words, about 4 min4The Friday Closing, the Missing Neighbor, and the Seal in the Drawer
A developer client in Reno asks you to prepare a boundary line adjustment that will enlarge his Lot 7 by about 0.3 acre so it meets the lender's minimum lot size before a Friday closing. The adjustment moves the common line with Parcel B roughly 15 feet west.
756 words, about 4 min5Traverse That Closes 1:6,800 and a Party Chief With a Compass Rule
Your crew ran a five-sided closed traverse around a 40-acre parcel in Nye County, beginning and closing on two published NGS monuments in the Nevada State Plane Coordinate System (NAD83, Nevada East, U.S. Distances were measured with a total station in ground units and then reduced to grid; the field book shows the combined scale factor was applied, but the party chief cannot say whether it was multiplied or divided.
746 words, about 4 min