What Format is this?

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

I am looking up some things on the Internet and found this format and am wondering what it is so I can try and map it.

sec. 7 T.15N. R.23E

[furfool]

I know nothing about formats and computers, but it looks like a legal description of a piece of property to me.

section 7 township 15 north range 23 east.

[benny7210]

Jim: The description would be used in a county plat book.
Section. 7
Tract. 15 north
Range 23 East
I hope this helps you out.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

Thanks for the help. Now where do I get a platbook?

[marc_54140]

Library, or Register of Deeds.

[Lostby7]

so what is the point of platbooks in the age of GPS?

[cheezehead]

@Lostby7 wrote:

so what is the point of platbooks in the age of GPS?

Section corners.And they also yell ya what’s county, State, Fed, private property. I carry plat books of 2 different counties in my truck when I’m out geocahing or bird hunting. Mostly counties I think are using GPSr to mark section corners in mapping and making this info available on line. If you now where a section corner is you can then find the boundary between public and private lands.

[cheezehead]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

Thanks for the help. Now where do I get a platbook?

DNR Office, County Forestry office, on the wall at the County Court house.

[furfool]

I’ve gotten all of my plats at the courthouses. Sometimes realty offices will have them, but not to purchase, only to browse.

[Lostby7]

I read a informational page about plats and the companies that publish them intentionally make errors to “Protect their copyright.”

http://www.sco.wisc.edu/maps/platbooks.php

…some commercial firms have made it a policy to insert “intentional” errors into the plat books to protect their copyrights, claiming only 85-90% reliability. Thus, while these maps are sufficient for many general purposes, they are not adequate for detailed use requiring high accuracy or current information.

[cheezehead]

That could be very true. In the Sawyer County plat book there is a road with a name but i have looked and looked and I STILL cant find the stupid road! 🙄 😕 😯 . And sometimes the companies just screw up really bad like not putting names on any of the lakes. My dad use to be on the County Board and had to work with some of these companies. Some are just plain bad.

[Team Deejay]

@Lostby7 wrote:

so what is the point of platbooks in the age of GPS?

Wrong question! The question is “What is the point of platbooks in the age of GIS websites?” The answer is that mobile computing is not yet widespread enough to allow everyone to access the websites on the road. Ten years from now, I expect you won’t be able to get platbooks for most places.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

@Lostby7 wrote:

so what is the point of platbooks in the age of GPS?

Can you say puzzle cache???

[MikeB]

Don’t expect the platbooks to go away. They are required by the Land Ordinance of 1785, which, to my knowledge, still is very much in force. Surveyors using modern equipment of course use GIS and GPS (along with military stuff, surveying equipment is significantly more accurate than anything you would use for geocaching) but the old platbooks are still sometimes needed for tracking down titles.

[Scrappy Scout]

I work for a land developer in Brookfield and we are required to have platt surveys for everything we do from installing silt fence to building a house. the biggest problem we have is just like everyone else when we build a house right next to an exsisting house the home owner usually will come out yelling that we are on there property and that our platt is wrong and then we have to fight and yadda yadda yadda biggest problem is the usually are yelling at the survey crew and not us

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