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Yeah.

I dealt with a couple of those.

Had one guy following me and my crew around with a rifle. He'd point it at us, and scream threats.

The last time I saw him was when he was being handcuffed by deputies and driven to jail in the back of the patrol car.

He did interrupt the survey for a day. But not the outcome of it.

It can run up the cost of the survey.

That was where the guy was pointing a rifle at us.

Had another guy dig up a marker I'd set on one of his corners. I got called back out because the adjoining land owner couldn't find it. So I reset the corner. Next day, the guy called me back out but said to be careful, because the guy tore it out again, and left a threatening note that he would shoot any surveyor he caught putting it back.

The sheriff thought that note was good enough to earn that guy a trip to the hoosegow as well. They arrested him for terroristic threat and removing legal survey monuments.

That sort of thing didn't happen much. But it did happen.

My stepfather bought a plot of mountain land here on the courthouse steps.
It was one of those 'could be 20 acres, could be 200 acres' as there was no surveys within the past 100 years on it.
Turned out to be 160 after survey. It adjoined National Forrest on one boundary and also had a NF fire road crossing it.
Neighboring owner protested the survey.
Guy was clearly bat schidt crazy.
Stepfather, surveyor and neighbor attorney all met on the land and discussed as the neighbor hid behind a tree 20' away in full camo[including face paint].
A year or so later the neighbor strung a unmarked cable across the fire road which resulted in a decapitation of a dirt biker.
The dispute pretty much ended right then.

No, they really can't. They can squawk about it all they want. But in the 2 states I've done it in, not a damn thing you can do.

Not true. It's the county and the states post. It just marks your property.

Yes. I have. Several times.

I'm talking about a wood corner post. The county neither buys. or sets the post.

If they drive in a steel rod with streamers, I leave it alone.

Fixt

Wow! What a hot button topic.

Sorry, but it's marking your property corner, and is accurate, it ain't yours. If you set it, it's not the corner, unless you're the surveyor. A wood post could very well have been set quite a while ago by surveyors. We have cedar posts, granate, stone, steel, all kids of cool old corner and section corner monuments that have been dug up.

So, who do I send the $20 bill for the post to?

You eat it.

Naw, fun topic

Thinking that Earlybird is asking about how to "dispute" a recently marked boundary?

Probably the best way to mark that is a set rebar and cap at the ground level of the fencepost, with a lathe denoting the offset, and note the offset on the survey plat.

When I was contemplating setting corners that fall on a fence corner, I always figured the fence post to be a temporary object, as fences get replaced every so often. But a rebar and cap, set at ground level with the offset noted on the deeds tends to be more permanent.

The exception is in metro areas where the backyard fence corners are the property corners. Then I set a PK concrete nail and brass washer with my LS number on it as the corner.

I've etched an "X" in concrete as a survey marker before, as well.

We have done the same.

Pay for your own survey and see how it shakes out when done, and then get a lawyer as needed...

Lots of states make the "point of discovery" as the beginning of disputing a boundary, rather than how long a person "thought" that was their property.

Just taking this off on a tangent, do you surveyor's every deal with correction lines?

The only correction lines I've dealt with are those on sectionalized land where a new govt survey corrects an error in the old sections of land, and duly monuments and files all the needed correction plats. Usually, those involve public lands. And there's not much you can do.

But... while the correction survey may move the property line, usually BLM & USFS have policy that old fence lines can be used by the property owner, and still hold as the enforced boundary for reasons of agriculture and trespass, as long as the fence line is maintained.

If you put a totally new fence in, it must go to the correction boundary. (Gives you incentive to keep your fences maintained, rather than replaced, huh?)