Famous Surveyors
Plats
Remonumentation
Recording
Here Come da Judge
100
This gentleman became the first County Surveyor in America at age 17, went on to become a distinguished General and father of his country.
Who is President George Washington?
100
The beginning of the Plat process, is approved before the Plat survey is conducted.
What is a Preliminary Plat?
100
The process by which a public land survey corner or property controlling corner position was established and marked in an original survey or resurvey by the U.S. government.
What is Monumentation?
100
The place where Surveys, Plats and Land Corners are recorded.
What is the Register of Deeds office?
100
The person who decides if a witness can give expert testimony.
Who is the Judge.
200
Leaders of the Corp of Discovery expedition, this pair mapped out the Louisiana Purchase for President Thomas Jefferson, and found a route to the Pacific Ocean in 1804-1806.
Who is Lewis and Clark?
200
An act to regulate the division of land; to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare; to further the orderly layout and use of land; to require that the land be suitable for building sites and public improvements.
What is the Land Division Act or Plat Act?
200
Name of the State of Michigan Department that oversees Surveyor certification, Plats and Remonumentation
What is LARA - Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs?
200
The name of the books used for recording land instruments.
What is a Liber?
200
The minimum time of possession needed to establish an adverse possession claim.
What is 15 years?
300
DAILY DOUBLE Name 2 other Presidents that were also involved with surveys.
Who are Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln? Bonus: Daniel Boone, although not a president, is also a well known surveyor.
300
This may be used to correct minor errors or typographical errors on a Plat.
What is an Surveyor's Affidavit? Note: Can not be used to change the boundaries or shape of lots, outlots or parcels of land in a subdivision.
300
Surveying falls under this Bureau or Agency
What is Bureau of Construction Codes?
300
The terms used to measure distances North and South from a baseline (designated parallel) and East and West.
What are Township and Range?
300
In an adverse possession case, it must be strictly construed.
What is "the evidence"?
400
Michigan's first State Geologist appointed to conduct a survey of Michigan, known for discovering copper ore in the Keweenaw, he drowned in Lake Superior at the age 36 while working on a survey.
Who is Douglass Houghton?
400
It is important to include all known recordings of these as part of a plat.
What are Easements?
400
The Division that Surveying falls in under Construction Codes.
What is the Office of Land Survey and Remonumentation?
400
They were the first known to invent and implement a land register in 3000 B.C.
Who are the Egyptians?
400
It requires the same elements as adverse possession except exclusivity.
What is an easement by prescription?
500
This gentleman is known as the "father of the typewriter," the inventor of the solar compass, the first U.S. Linear Surveyor in the U.P., discoverer of iron ore in the U.P. and an advocate for the Sault Ste. Marie canal.
Who is William Austin Burt?
500
This shall be made when any amendment, correction, alteration or revision of a recorded plat is ordered by a circuit court.
What is a survey and plat?
500
Starting with the 2015 grants, any corner completed with State Survey and Remonumentation funds must include these
What are latitude and longitude values?
500
The department responsible for prescribing the information that must be included in a Land Corner Recordation Certificate.
What is the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs - LARA
500
The touchstone of the doctrine of acquiescence.
What is an agreed upon line or boundry?
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