Has anybody noticed that, along MNND about two miles north of the tripoint and
along MNSD about 3.5 miles south, the same map says "indefinite boundary"? This
is a disclaimer by the feds saying, "Hey, we only put this dotted line were we
did because we had to put it somewhere. Don't take it to the bank!"
Lowell
----- Original Message -----
From: "m donner" <maxivan82@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:00 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] mnndsd ideas
> just noticed on the mnndsd topo
> http://tinyurl.com/grbw
> wherever the elusive damn line & with it the tripoint may actually fall
> today in terms of the ndsd line
> whether 594 feet east or 80 feet east or some other distance east of the
> witness monument
> nevertheless
> in terms of the underlying public land system
> the tripoint will still fall along the south edge of a mnnd section & the
> north edge of a mnsd section
>
> these interstate sections btw & fyi are respectively
> section 34 of range 47 west in township 129 north
> to the north of the tripoint
> & section 3 of range 47 west in township 128 north
> to the south of the tripoint
>
>
> so first i have to wonder if the 2 sections or subsections involved have
> ever been legally subdivided by the river
> or by the damn line
> if different
> to produce in either case 4 unistate parcels of land all meeting at the
> tripoint
> or whether the public land sections or subsections involved remain undivided
> by the damn line
> & produce interstate parcels of land merely sandwiching the tripoint
> while continuing to incorporate & straddle the river &or the damn line
>
> but more to the point
> i also have to wonder exactly how the county land offices have distributed
> or delineated the affected sections for dividing up the tax bills
> regardless of whether the acreages are split between different landowners or
> merely allocated for the benefit of single landholders
>
>
> & since these 2 sections arent the only mnnd & mnsd sections requiring such
> treatment
> they should not present obscure & difficult cases to research
> but rather i would expect them to represent routine instances of a tax
> allocation method that must be used all along the bois de sioux
> where the public land sections are routinely divided by the river
>
> so my guess is that the tax assessors will not be put out or embarrassed at
> all by our questions
> but will have the answers to them readily available for us in their standard
> verbal &or platted descriptions
>
> we simply need to ask in wheaton mn
> where is the sw corner of the mentioned section 34 in minnesota
> & where is the nw corner of the mentioned section 3 in minnnesota
> while making sure that it is indeed the same point they give us
> & then to ask for the corresponding corners on the other side of the damn
> line
> in wahpeton nd & in sisseton sd respectively
> which will incidentally be the same as ndse & sdne respectively
> making them that much easier to refer to & identify
> but again
> being careful that there is indeed full agreement & a single geoposition
>
> & with any luck all these data should agree & may well be obtainable by
> phone
>
> but in any case what fun even if they dont agree or cant be had so easily
>
> any thoughts
>
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