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Everything in the middle adds up to 8.549 acres of land, give or take a few feet. Now, go straight back to the beginning from there by going North 77 degrees E along that North line of Section 32. It is also back in the north line of the SW quarter of the NE quarter of Section 32.
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Now, go North 13 degrees W 582 feet to another 1 ¼ brass cap in some more concrete. Now, go South 76 degrees, West 640 feet to a brass cap about 1 ¼ in diameter set in some concrete. Now the actual SE corner of the property is South 75 degrees West about a ½ a foot from the center of that post. Once there you will find some concrete around an iron pipe post. You consequently will be on the North line of the SW quarter of the NE quarter of Section 32. To better explain this, bounds would be used to state that a property is bound on the north by Green, on the east by Smith, on the south by. Metes refers to an explanation of the distance and course of the property, while bounds is a description of the property boundaries. From there go South 77 degrees, 00 minutes, and 05 seconds West and then you will be at the NE Corner of the land in question. Two terms that are common to deed descriptions are metes and bounds. If you go to the NE quarter of the Section 32, and then go to the SW quarter of that NE quarter, then go to the NE corner of that SW quarter for your starting point, then you can start to look for the actual starting point of the land in question. This legal description by the way is from a search and post I did about the Cell Towers of Doom! Anyway, the description of boundaries that make up this land are as follows:
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The 8.549 acre lot of land we are talking about is in Section 32, Block 26, of the T&P Railway Company Surveys that were done in Mitchell County, Texas. Now, you can see, this starts off giving the starting reference using the Public Land Surveying System, so you would have to have a copy of the survey or some form of it on hand to start, but here is a translation of the above. Put that together with distances and you have a basic metes and bounds description that looks like this. The majority of your metes and bounds legal descriptions will stick to common standard and use a quadrant notation system for direction. With that much money on the line you’d think they would want to re-survey and bring the legals up to date. And this is part of a large piece of land that makes up a ski resort in Maine.