Category: Department

11.29.2020

GLO Record of the Week: William Henry Clark

This GLO Record of the Week is about William Henry Clark (W.H. Clark), one of the first surveyors in what is now the…

11.29.2020

The 1952 Louisiana Supreme Court case of Hill v. Richey (59 So. 2d 434 221 La. 402) reinforces some elementary concepts but also…

11.29.2020

Find the areas of the parcels on each side of the roadway, excluding the roadway. For the solution to this problem (and much…

07.12.2020

The winds of curiosity have blown us to Jackson v. Dysling 2 Cai. R. 198 decided by the New York Supreme Court in…

05.23.2020

This month we are grazing on several cases united by the theme of practical location. We have a few caveats right up front….

05.23.2020

AF is the bisector of angle BAD in parallelogram ABCD. EBFG is also a parallelogram. What is angle BAD?. For the solution to…

04.22.2020

The case of Ward v. Marshall was decided in West Virginia just about 30 years ago and rests just outside of Beckley, West…

04.22.2020

This General Land Office Record of the Week is based on a legendary Wild West character, Jeremiah Johnson. You may have heard of…

04.22.2020

Given the data shown find the lengths of the sides where AB = BC, and the lengths of the two diagonals of the…

03.03.2020

I feel that the surveyor best represents a boundary when we represent that which the owners have expressed as the true boundary on…