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I" ~.~’” TL F; Egster D; A; Jones Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Science June 1955 THESLq PREFACE Purpose and Scope: In the working and preparation of this thesis, it has been the authors' chief purpose to determine the best known boundary for the Michigan State College property near East Lansing, michigan. Because of the extent of the college property and due to the limited time allowed for the comple- tion of this thesis, no attempt was made to locate or esta- blish the entire property boundary. Instead a point of be- ginning was selected, the corner of Pinetum Woods, and as much of the boundary as possible was established by pro- ceeding from this point in'a clockwise direction around the property. The field work was continued to the corner of Haaadorn and Mount Hope roads. In all, the property boundary established was three miles in length and the number of property corners located totaled thirteen. These boundary lines and corners were located by running approximately four and one half miles of closed tra- verse. A coordinate system of locating lines and points was fol- lowed so that thersurveys for the rest of the property boun- dary may be taken up at a later date and may proceed readily from the lines and points the authors have established. It is the express desire of the authors to have the boundary survey they have started completed by later graduating civil ennineers for their thesis,work. The authors recognize 86316 Jinirlrlalifiiisn‘? r s: ‘ 4».I|.\....A.I>F,-L v s , .. .c PREFACE fully the invaluable practical experience and technical training they received by the working and preparation of this thesis. They wish to recommend a similar thesis prob- lem to any who wish to develop their surveying ability. Acknowledgment: The authors wish to acknowledge the invaluable advice and assistance which have been so generously extended to them by the Civil Engineering staff at Michigan State Col- lege, during the working of this thesis, particularly to Professor C.M. Cade of that staff, who very kindly responded to requests for information and assisted greatly in its preparation. The authors are also indebted to the Civil Engineering department at Michigan State for the use of surveying instruments and equipment. CONTENTS {:1 RACHQ (‘3: Introduction survey and Marks History Marks Iitnesses Surveys Computations Computations of Coordinates of Bearings & Distances observations on Polaris Field Data References Contents of Cover Pocket: l,Legal Descriptton of College Property 2.?roperty Line Map, s... QOHFOIN ll 12 17 I Q r3.4l51..,fllei_ 5E, ...}..v--.v. . .r...lv.|7.v... a d a lNThUUUC T1 UN The Michigan State College property near East Lansing, Michigan, contains several parcels of land situated and be- ing in the township of Feridian, Town 4 North, Range I West, and the township of Lansing, Town 4 North, Range 2 West, County of Inaham, and State of fiichigan, and is described as found in the legal description enclosed in the cover pocket of this volume. The sum of the acreases contained in the parcels of land making up the college property aggre- gates nearly seventeen hundred (1700) acres. These parcels have been acquired from time to time with the gradual eXpan- sion of the college land requirements and with but little regard to consolidating a systematic area. Hence, the boun- dary of these parcels of the college property is a compli- cated series of lines. By referring to the map of the col- lege prOperty a general idea may be had of the relative lo- cation of these parcels and their boundaries. The portion of the boundary which was established by the working of this thesis borders generally the East parcels of the college property. The boundary established is located en- tirely in the township of meridian and in sections 17, 18, 19 and 20 thereof. The point of beginning for the boundary survey was the corner common to sections 17,18,19 and 20 or the southwest corner of Pinetum Woods. The survey ended at the corner common to sections 19,20,29 and 50 which is ap- proximately at the intersection of Hanadorn and Mount Hope roads. Both points are on the center line of Hasadorn Road, on the map of the college properties as can he noted. C o Ins, '05.!o.'vtrl'rwt1 r I.- . u r to ,‘r 1:11 SJ... I1 SURVEYS AND HaRKS History: The original surveys of Innham county were made in 1827, more than one hundred years ago. They Irremmade supposedly accordina to the instructions of the District Surveyor Gene- ral, who carried on the surveys under the direction of the United States General Land office. Deputy surveyors per- formed the actual survevina Operations. The work was done under contract, at stipulated prices per mile for lines of various degrees of importance or difficulty. Hence there was much slackness in the execution of the early surveys, especially in the planting of monuments at section and quar- ter-section corners. Corners were marked by sinking a tim- ber post. If in timbered country witness trees were marked and noted in the notes. The wooden posts soon decayed, the trees were cut down and the result was a lost corner. In some localities stones were set in the around as marks but this was an exception. as the land was taken up by settlers, concern arose as to the exact bounds of the sections and quarter-sections, and as communities became more thickly populated, smaller subdivisions of land were required. Local private surveyors were called upon to establish the bounds and to subdivide the quarter sections. They realized the importance of more permanent marks when they found it necessary to restore many lost or obliterated marks in the original position of the corners. However, the actions of surveys resulting in SURVEYS AND MARKS changes of lines and disturbing questions of ownership were and are subject to review by the courts. It may be seen, that although the land was presumably surveyed according to a definite plan and all resurveys sub- ject to judicial law, there is a question as to the exact boundaries of prOperties and much time and money is required to establish them. This applies especially to the establish- ment of the college property boundary because no complete resurvey has ever been made and because the property does in- clude so many odd parcels of land. Marks: During the workinaof this thesis, the authors found three stone monuments. One stone marked the section corner common to section 19,20,29 and so of meridian township. Another marked the quarter-section corner common to sections 17 and 20 of Meridian township. The third marked the center of section 24 of Lansing township. The rest of the section, quarter-section and property corners found by the authors were made of iron or steel and were usually sunk well into the earth. The marks found on the line common to sections 19 and 20 of Meridian township, alone Haaadorn Road, had all been used by local surveyors within the last fifteen years. They tsried from a three-quarter inch round pipe to a steel axle and were found only after dissing throuch the aravel surface SWWDEJWDMMmS and grade of Hagadorn Road. Two were found bent, the shaft marking the section corner common to section I?,I8,19 and 20 of Meridian township, and the steel rod at the southeast corner of Biebesheimer's property. The cause for the dis- turbance of these marks was probably carelessness on the part of county highway laborers during the rearading and re- surfacing of Haaadorn Road. Due to the same cause another mark alone the road was found only by dissina down three feet under the surface of the road. Still another, which from reliable authority had been sunk in the old road bed before resurfacing, was not found althoueh considerable dissing was done. The authors wish to recommend in cases of metal marks a most extensive search by means of a compass for the ap- proximate position of the mark before and through-out the process of dinning. The bent metal shafts were carefully removed by the auth- ors and a straight pipe sunk in their place. metal pipe was also used to mark the lost corner mentioned above and for the mark at the southeast corner of Pinetum woods, which was established by the authors. Witnesses: In order that the locations of corners may be ascertained it has been the practice to show with field notes the con- nection of two or more designated objects with the corner SURVEYS aND MARKS mark. These objects are generally called witnesses or ac- cessories. They are a very essential part of a firmly es- tablished monument. Accessories in the order of their de- sirability are: bearing objects, such as cliffs, rocks, or boulders marked; memorials, such as marked stone, bench marks, cast iron buried; pits or mounds or stone at proper distances, and marked bearing trees. A permanent record of all such witnesses must be kept if they are to be of value. Field sketches will generally be the most satisfactory in recording notes. The little experience the authors have had in finding witnesses has lead them to believe that few surveyors fully realize the value of permanent accessories. A number of corner marks were found with out a single recorded stances and several with the recorded witnesses entirely eliminated. The authors very carefully witnessed all the colleae property cornerumarks they used. Among the witnesses used by them were nails in bases of trees, bench marks, concrete anchor posts, buildings and iron stakes. Survey: after finding as may of the marks at property corners as possible and witnessing them, the authors were confronted with the problem of accurately surveying the lines between the marks. By a reconnaissance of the lines it was found Impractical to set the transit up at some of the corners and SUHVSYS aND MaRKS to measure all the distances directly on the property lines. It was decided to run a closed traverse with as many of the property lines included as was deemed practical . It was also decided to run four lines across the traverse, thus dividing the traverse into five closed parts, which should be a very good means of checking the traverse and isolating mistakes. In the survey of the traverse a transit which could be read to one minute of arc was used to measure the angles. Each angle was repeated six times so that the resulting ac- curacy of angle measurement was to ten seconds of arc. The errors found when the angles of each part of the traverse were balanced were surprisingly small. A four-sided, closed section of the traverse had no error in angles, that is, the sum of the angles exactly equaled three hundred sixty degrees. A six sided closed section had an error of only five seconds. however, these results weze overshadowed womewhat by the error of eighty seconds that had to be distributed between the four angles at one point. In balancing the angles par- ticular care was exercised to the give the annles most likely to include errors, the creater correction. Tape measurements were made with readines to one hundredth of a foot. Special care was taken in measuring. The tape used was corrected to the standard, the pull was carefully judged and plumb lines were used to used to insure horizontal mea- surements. The alignment was given by range poles, since SURVEYS ah» MALKS transit alignments are impossible for a two man party. Each line was taped twice and the mean taken unless the dif- ference between the two measurements was too great in which case the line was taped the third time. The error of clo- sure for the traverse was I in 10. 050.41.. A total of twenty two angles were measured and the length of the twenty three lines was approximately twenty four thou- sand feet or nearly four and one-half miles. The traverse included property corners sufficient to establish more than three miles of continuous college property lines. Computations: The computations for the length and bearing of the sec- tions of boundary established were greatly simplified by the use of the coordinate system. The initial point of the sur- vey, corner common to sections 17,18,19 and 20 or Meridian township, was given the coordinate values of I0,000,I0,000. By means of the corrected latitudes and departures of each side of the traverse the prpperty corners were computed. Simple Algebraic and trigonometric formulas usins the above computed coordinates save the length and bearing of each section of the property boundary. To establish the south line of Pinetum Woods it was ne- cessary to locate the west half of the section line common to sections 17 and 20 of teridian township.Since the section SURVEYS aND FEAR KS corner comnon to sections 17,18,19 and 20 and the i post common to sections 17 and 20 had both been found it was only necessary to determine the line between these two points. However, it was found necessary to run a three sided traverse between the points because of invisibility and obstructions. It was also necessary to compute the distance across the Red Cedar river by means of a triangle. The traverse was very carefully run since it was not advisalbe to make it closed. The coordinate system of com- putations was again used and the coordinates of a point on the higher bank of the river and directly on the section line was determined. 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D HELD DATA MNN‘TRAVERSL Dm'rmccs #4 .1 ‘3 - " :3 . 0" m M “5 ‘5 '5;.. #1 o \l )\ '8 .oo ,“9 a o ‘3' I“ n» 6 r F 132°»; \1 65935 A \451 52. fl. 14 FIELD DATA Maw-Twain: . Mm: v.9 ‘13 ‘1’ o,_ 30’ Mb K: \E AT EMA-'2'“ TRAveoE , figLfib Ann Shgfleuggfi L 02 1 ”‘5 ~ '4’ o g ‘3. 1* v". 9 / 0.. 2H \1 '5 ‘4." ‘ g . a l ‘ .1 3 {:9 J '9 *2 “‘9 {'1 RmFEFWNCE Sta. No. I S.E. Cor. Pinotum There was no trace of the property line along the south side of Pinetum, therefore, we ran a traverse from the S.W. corner of Sec. 17 to the S.& corner of Sec. 17 and by com- putino the off sets, we set a I inch iron pipe on the line at the bank of the river. For details concerning this point see Location of South Line of Pinetum on Pane Reference Direction Distance Remarks 20 inch elm S. 5.10 ft. Blaze,nail I 2 H N N . 24 . '7]: N H I! 15 " pine N.w. 33.31 " " " 49-22- .z-.ca-::-::--:z-e:--:-:-::--:H:«zz--n-::--n«:emenar- Sta. No. 2 Sec. Cor. 17,18,19 and 20 Meridian township on Hasadorn Roadat southeastjcorner of Pinetum Hoods This section corner was orinnally laid Feb. 5, 1827, by Federal nov't survey, Post was set and witnessed by beech 8 S. 4 E.3 an Ironwood 6 N 59; W19 a later refernce to this was found in the county survey records which was 25 ft. W. center of anchor post. The corner was also referred to in 1917 by Cade and his witnesses were 24.7 ft. 3. to anchor post and 35.6 ft. S.E. to maple. When we found it the anchor post had been moved over 52.5 ft. from sec. corner and pipe was bent over. we replaced the pipe with another iron pipe and witnessed it as follows: Reference Direction Distance Remarks Bench Mark N.E. 27.29 ft. Maple S.E. 35.66 " Blaze [8 5m“! SE. Cor. pNETUM a 5m 2 &(.Cor. a7,1e,\9,szo MLE\D\AN wausmp COLLEGE; ‘ COLLEGE. ' a (Pendum) TBOLEN fl 3' ‘0 19 hEFMiniECE Sta. No. 4 % cor. sec. 18 and 19 Meridian Township This was originally laid Feb. 5, 1827, by sov't survey, and witnessed as 90.00 chains west of sec. cor. 17,18, 19 and 20, Ironwood 6" diameter bears S. 78 E. 18, and and a Beech 3" in diameter bears N 52 W 10. It was uncovered in 1917 by C.M. Cade and was referred as an iron stake. We uncovered the stake set in the 8.2. corner of a 12 in. concrete post and sticking about 3 feet out of the around with a plate riveted on top. We also tied it to a 12 in. butternut tree 4.17 ft. S.E. of stake. *4!» wet-messes;-::--::--::-*-:z~-::--u~-::~-ze-::—-:z—-x— Sta. No. 5 S.W. Cor. Toolen Farm We found no references to this point but found an old rotten stake on the line which proved to be it from measure- ments that we made from it. We set an iron stake here and witnessed it as follows: Reference Direction Distance Remarks 20 inch maple S.E. 10.25 ft. Blaze,nail 29 " " 3.1. 22.21 n n n 10 51-34 2‘,- Cor. 50c. 18 t \9 Mmmmu Couuabt ‘ (I'Cohc. 905* s s * .6, sh... .. COL. LEGE. l‘ “ cw“ @‘1‘. Sofie Mov‘ I 5m " 5 S w. Cor. TOOLEN %..?-\ WcodOn 9054 ‘ -————-‘X COLLEGE 'QZsfl 1°“ MQ 9“ “e p * Too L~E N ToouLN MOP“ COLLEGE 7.1 REFERENCE Sta. No. 7 N.w. Cor. Beibesheimer Farm MP In C.M. Cades Survey in 1917 reference was oiven as I inch shaft and 56 ft. S.E. to butternut tree. We recovered the shaft and tied it in as follows: Reference Direction Distance Remarks Fence line S. 6.0 ft. butternut tree S. E. 35.6 " Blaze, nail ages-teases):-ec-H-mms-tz-eee-H- Sta. No. 8 8.4. Cor. Beibesheimer Farm an iron rod was set here by C.M. Cade in 1917 when making his survey. We uncovered stake tiaht aaainst a IO inch anchor post on west side. There being no permanent objects around to tie the corner to we left it with no further ties. 2.7. 5m ”‘7 N w Cor. BUSESHEMER TOOLtN 35"? (3'00“ a x x r -—s———— Po“ (,5 . ' \‘L' Ash Md CQLEGE Bataewumaq Dta“5 3W Cor. BEJEEJHDMER BEIBEbuEIMER 'fl”——- ‘ ’ ’ 5m! 5 .0 Pest Won) COL LEGE. ‘23 REFERENCE Sta. No. 9 S.E. Cor. Beibesheimer Farm This corner was set with a Ford axle by C.M. Cade in 1917, when makins a survey of Beibesheimer Farm and was tied in by Elm S.W. I7.5 ft. and maple N.fl. 88.5 ft. We found the axle bent in two places but the bottom part was still in a vertical position and screed with witnesses. Pipe was put in in place of axleand the followina ties. Reference Direction Distance Remarks 24 inch maple N.w. 88.2 ft. Blaze,nail 30 n n 8.1;". ".2 N fl " easeacceeceteeeeeseee:eieeaeee+seseezaeeeeteeé Sta. No. 10 f Cor. Sec. 19 and 20 Meridian Township The oriainal rov't survey records show this cor. as being laid in 1327 and a post set40.00 chains north of Sec. cor. 19,20,29 and 50. Tied in by GRBGinnch white oak bearina S. at a distance of 45 links and E. 9 links. also a 4 inch ironwood hearing S. at a distance of 09 links and west 9 links. This was recovered in 1907 by Caulkins who used it in lay- ina'out the north line of what is now the Wilnox farm. He set a 1 inch iron pipe in place of old mark. It was again re- covered in 1917 by C.h. Code. We recovered it and tied it in as follows: References Direction Distance Remarks 40 inch maple N.N. 81.5 ft. Blaze,nail 20 inch maple s.n. 182. 0 n n n Concrete culvert E. .17.5 " Hole in c. 2.4 5m” 3. 5E . (or. BEtBDHE'MER Cd u" 0" o p\ a O BEIBE'DHElMCK Q?’ i o 0 0”: Bd 5b! a {\rovfi V 9:” COLL: (3:, U K o 3 H 5 fl 5m“ \0 g Cor, sec. 19 e 20 Memos». Towusmp 40' Map‘. "”3410 \v- n t . Conga GE m; W43) S v -———o "a £1.— ‘31:: 1L5 REFEhENCE Sta. No. 11 N.E. Cor. Wilsox Farm This corner was originally set in 1907 by Caulkins and later checked by Robb. It was the east end of a line to divide the N % (80 acres) of the S.E. t of section 19 in- to two equal or 90 acre plats. We recovered a 9% inch iron and tied it is as follows: References Direction Distance Remarks 50 inch maple N.W. 106.1 ft. Blaze,nail anchor Post W. 25.9 ft. 6 in. apple N.E. 56.8 " " " erasaaraaaaaaaa%%**a**%**a Sta. No. 15 N.w. Cor. Wilcox Farm This corner was set at the same time and by same party as one just described, Sta. No. 11. It was also checked by Robb and referred as a pipe in tile. We found the point at referred and it was on the east side of the north and south rail fence, which was built by the owners of the property on west side of north and south fence.'A1so a wire fence has re- placed the rail fence on the south end which is in line with the cor. point, and on east side of old rail fence now. References Direction Distance Remarks 24 inch ash N.W. 10.81 ft. Blaze,nail 8 111011 elm "-I. 6.60 H n n 7.6 Emmi N E. Cor. W|Lcox 36 m1 H “O. COLLEGE. VQG N7?“ 9°" 7: — 7 he“ ‘12:“? 1| §. \ Macon .. g ‘ “I t .4 30313 NAN Cor. Wmcox 1““ COLLEGE. 32‘. 23 REFER ENC E Sta. No. 14 8.9. Cor. Wilcox Farm There was no reference found to this corner other than that of Mr. Wilcox who stated the south line had been sur- veyed years ago by Caulkins and showed us the iron stake. Caulkins had set the stake and it was on both east and west and north and south fence lines. This checked out all riaht for distance and was taken as the point. Refeneace Direction Distance Remarks 15 inch elm N.E. 20.50 ft. Blaze,nail 24 " basswood H. 33.50 " " " a " elm 3.14. 5.10" " " * Mic-3H? 49-2:- fi-ti-‘IC-tl-ét-J’crti-tt‘dé-fi *4?*-§4$~X-%*¢£— Sta. No. 15 S.E. Cor. Wilcox Farm This was set at same time as Sta. No. 14 by same party but due to a 5.5 ft. fill in road we were not able to recover. it but by proportional method it was located and came with- in 6 inches of old fence line and lined in north and south by sec. and: sec. corners. Set an iron pipe 4 inches below gravel surface of read. Reference Direction Distance Remarks Elm N.W. 45.00 ft. Blaze,nail H W. 24.25 H I? I! " s.w. 41.85 " 9 " 2.8 5+... '14 amass “NJ. on 'DB RE FE 1‘2 EN C E Sta. 16 Sec. Cor. 19,20,29 and 50 Meridian Township This corner was originally set in 1827 by Federal nov't survey. Post was set and referred by an 8 inch beech bearing S. at a distance of 4 links and E. 5 links, a 6 inch iron- wood bearing S. at a distance of 59.5 links and N. 19 links. a later reference was found in county survey records, which was referred as a stone, S.E. Cor of brick house bear- ing N. 57% degrees W, at a distance of 1.785 chains, a maple bearing 3.2. at a distance of 95.5 ft.; a 5 inch catalpa bearing N.W. at a distance of 47.5 ft. and center of Mount Hope Road lays 5 ft. south of corner stone. We recoverd the stone finding it 5 ft. north of Mt. Hope Road. Reference Direction Distance Remarks S.E. cor.Br.Rouse N.W. 117.9 ft. Iron stake N.E. 50.0 " 12Linch maple 8.2. 95.22 " Blaze Bench Mark N.w. 52.56 " 55.x»:- aura-14:45 -'~-;:~':.’- -:;-—:.:< 545;.— -: '-o::--::--::--::. 3: Sta. 18' a See. Cor. I7 and 20 Meridian Township This was originally set in 1827 by sov't survey. It was only recorded as 40.00chains east of sec. cor. 17,18,19, and 20 and a post set, no references. It was also stated as be- ing 51.74 chtlns east of east bank of Red Cedar river. It was later referred by farmers thereabout as beina a stone with a notch in it. We recovered the stone alone the fence line. Reference: 8 in. elm;Direction: N.; Distance; 55.6 ft. 30 w fin. to 36.0.11 13.10.23; 53° MWW LEGAL DESI g (,1 U) [U Acquired from I BRARI 03075 0727 Parcels of land situat. gen, and described as f (11), North half (} é) of Northeast quarter (M) ‘ four (4) and Southeast above in Town five (5) l MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Ll . .. .- .l l 1293 l /’ A. 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