Property line on19.5 acres

[KYDan]

Check with your county property valuation administrator, he/she may have an aerial photo of the parcel with the boundary lines overlaid. If not, then try the elevated post method with markers and use a good compass (military type) and get the heading. The calls on the deed of the property should have the heading from point to point as well, so if you can't see the posts you can still get an accurate bearing, and check with the owner of the adjacent property, and work with him/her on determining the line. There is a statute in Kentucky that can require the landholder of the adjacent property to pay half the cost of the fence. You can usually get the adjacent owner to sign off with your line calls if you pay for all of the fence construction with the stipulation that you will pay for the entire fence. Good luck.

 

[ustmd]

$600 for a fence line survey is a great deal. Most surveyors here will not get out of bed for less than $1000. My neighbor just paid $1400 for a fence survey along 1 side of a 10 acre plot.

 

[Gunny]

Check with your county property valuation administrator, he/she may have an aerial photo of the parcel with the boundary lines overlaid. If not, then try the elevated post method with markers and use a good compass (military type) and get the heading. The calls on the deed of the property should have the heading from point to point as well, so if you can't see the posts you can still get an accurate bearing, and check with the owner of the adjacent property, and work with him/her on determining the line. There is a statute in Kentucky that can require the landholder of the adjacent property to pay half the cost of the fence. You can usually get the adjacent owner to sign off with your line calls if you pay for all of the fence construction with the stipulation that you will pay for the entire fence. Good luck.

That one has been off the books for some time now, but a lot of people still bring it up every now and then. If your neighbor wants to put a fence in, you can agree to pay half, or do half, but if you don't have any plans on running livestock ever on the property, you can decline. If he decides to put the fence on the line anyway, you can go ahead and run livestock. If he backs it up a foot on his side, then you can't run livestock unless you put a new fence up a foot on your side of the line.

I've been there, done that. Actually had a guy try to sue me because I refused to pay for half of the fencing because he wanted to raise one beef for slaughter. County Attorney refused to take the case.

 

[KYDan]

If you are a viable/verifiable farming operation you can proceed with it. The county attorney has nothing to do with it, it is not a criminal case, but rather a civil one. The keys are viable and verifiable.

 

[MacLawn]

Tim, I'd get this done right from the start! I've read that some places in Kentucky still have boundary/ownership problems that started when Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton first began settling there. No fault of theirs, it's just the way things happened sometimes way back then.

Anyway, if I could afford 19 acres, I could sure afford to have it properly surveyed and make CERTAIN that I really owned the amount of land along the lines that I paid for.

 

[Dr_Zinj]

If you can find the corners, try using a laser pointer to run a line of sight between them.

 

[Western]

I'm with trying to get my own line with the elevated post, laser ect tra. If you dont feel comfortable with your line, you dont have to build the fence without getting a surveyor. From what I have been told by several surveyors, is it isn't 100% accurate anyway, could be a foot off here and there. I know they can use GPS, but not in the woods for clear line of sight to the sky. (what my last surveyor told me)

In any case, I see some brush cutt'n being done!

 

[Timm250]

If you can find the corners, try using a laser pointer to run a line of sight between them.

If you could see between the points that would work but the problem is the line starts on a field, goes into the woods, back into a field, then to the woods again. The wods are really thick because it was logged about 5 years ago.

 

[IkeRoberts]

I use a GPS to hike all the time. Try this--
Get the coordinates at your two corners with a handheld GPS device. Open Google Earth on your computer. Start at one corner, mark it. Go to the other corner, mark it. Draw a straight line between the two. Now anywhere on that line, google earth with give you the coordinates. Put your mouse pointer on 4 or 5 spots along the straight line. Write down all your coordinates. Now go out and mark each one on the line untill you have enough points to be able to see your line all the way from corner to corner.

 

[milkman636]

Tim, I'd get this done right from the start! I've read that some places in Kentucky still have boundary/ownership problems that started when Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton first began settling there. No fault of theirs, it's just the way things happened sometimes way back then.

Anyway, if I could afford 19 acres, I could sure afford to have it properly surveyed and make CERTAIN that I really owned the amount of land along the lines that I paid for.

X2, another vote for getting right the first time. Avoiding future boundary disputes with the new neighbors might be priceless.