CSLB Cadastral Surveying case studies
CSLB Cadastral Surveying · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Cadastral surveying is the branch of land surveying concerned with the location, description, and documentation of real property boundaries - the parcels that make up the cadastre, the public record of land ownership. A cadastral surveying credential signals that a practitioner can retrace a boundary from documentary and physical evidence, interpret deeds and plats, resolve conflicts between them, and prepare records that will hold up under legal scrutiny. The CSLB Cadastral Surveying case studies are 5 cases and about 4,060 words.
1The Cedar Fence That Isn't the Line
Lots 12 and 13 of the Aldergrove Tract (1925 map) each front 60.0 feet on Alder Street. The subdivider set 3/4-inch iron pipes at every lot corner; the pipes at the street line are found and agree with the map, but the common rear corner pipe between Lots 12 and 13 is gone.
828 words, about 4 min2Restoring a Lost Quarter Corner with a 1978 Pipe in the Way
You are retracing Section 22, T.4S., R.2E. The south line measures 80.32 chains between two original 1873 stone corners with legible scribing and recognizable bearing-tree stumps.
805 words, about 4 min3The Impossible Deed Call on Lot 6
Lot 6 of the Millbrook Tract fronts 330.0 feet on Mill Street. In 1948 Owen conveyed to Pryce "the west 200 feet of the east half of Lot 6," recorded March 1948.
853 words, about 4 min4Two Monuments, One Uniform Shift
Your firm's 1998 ALTA survey set two 1-inch monuments, MC-1 and MC-2, 1,215.6 feet apart, with coordinates on NAD83 derived from a static GPS session and published on the recorded map to 0.01 ft. In 2024 you return with network RTK referenced to NAD83(2011), epoch 2010.0, using three CORS with stated horizontal network accuracy of 0.03 ft.
793 words, about 4 min5'Leave the Wall and the Easement Off'
Your client owns a 0.42-acre parcel and plans a 1,900-square-foot addition. Your boundary survey finds the neighbor's block wall and a 1.8-foot roof overhang encroaching on the client's parcel, and a 12-foot-wide access easement of record crossing the proposed building pad.
781 words, about 4 min