Farm Surveys
The term "farm survey" can actually have more than one meaning, depending on the circumstances of the particular job. Most often times, farm surveys are used to locate or determine existing boundaries of land, or are used to legally separate building sites from the rest of the land.
Section Subdivisions
Most lands located outside of city jurisdictions are or lie with areas of land called sections. Sections are nominally 1 square mile tracts of land which have usually been broken down or subdivided into smaller tracts or aliquot parts (ex: SE 1/4, or W 1/2, NE 1/4...).One of the most common uses of the farm survey is to locate the existing boundaries and determine the area of land which has been subdivided in this manner. In other cases, this type of survey is used to divide larger portions of sections into smaller ones. In both cases, it is common that the survey will require the finding or re-establishment of several, if not all of the section and quarter-section corners in that particular section, in order to properly determine and or further subdivide the areas of land in question.
Section Subdivisions
Most lands located outside of city jurisdictions are or lie with areas of land called sections. Sections are nominally 1 square mile tracts of land which have usually been broken down or subdivided into smaller tracts or aliquot parts (ex: SE 1/4, or W 1/2, NE 1/4...).One of the most common uses of the farm survey is to locate the existing boundaries and determine the area of land which has been subdivided in this manner. In other cases, this type of survey is used to divide larger portions of sections into smaller ones. In both cases, it is common that the survey will require the finding or re-establishment of several, if not all of the section and quarter-section corners in that particular section, in order to properly determine and or further subdivide the areas of land in question.
Building site surveys
Building site surveys are a type of farm survey where there is an existing area of land that is not an aliquot part, and needs to be legally separated from its parent tract for one reason or another. It could be that new construction is planned, or that there is already a building site there, but whatever the reason, the scope of this type of survey is to divide a section or part of a section into two or more smaller tracts, one being the new "building site" tract, and the other being the remainder.
Building site surveys are a type of farm survey where there is an existing area of land that is not an aliquot part, and needs to be legally separated from its parent tract for one reason or another. It could be that new construction is planned, or that there is already a building site there, but whatever the reason, the scope of this type of survey is to divide a section or part of a section into two or more smaller tracts, one being the new "building site" tract, and the other being the remainder.