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I agree, pull your neighbors deeds and hope you find some recent references to locatable monuments. For example if that iron works parcel is a neat rectangle with a couple of corners known, that will help locate their corner that is common to you.
Also the county may let you see their survey file for the road.
I took similar information and located some nearby known points onto Google Earth, then added the distance/direction for my lines. My back corners hit where Grandpa's old stories predicted. By chance the neighbor had those corners surveyed and monumented a short time after. My estimated side lines were found to go down the correct corridors between orchard rows, and the survey revealed I owned about 4 ft of width more on each side compared to my Google Earth estimate. I missed my back line, across the ravine, by 10 to 20 ft but since that is an impassible steep bank, my estimate had been sufficient for any practical purpose.
Attached: I went over with a ladder and added a 'witness monument' to the one corner I can see from my side of the ravine. It's a yellow newspaper delivery tube nailed vertical to a tree, barely visible at the center of these photos.
Also the county may let you see their survey file for the road.
I took similar information and located some nearby known points onto Google Earth, then added the distance/direction for my lines. My back corners hit where Grandpa's old stories predicted. By chance the neighbor had those corners surveyed and monumented a short time after. My estimated side lines were found to go down the correct corridors between orchard rows, and the survey revealed I owned about 4 ft of width more on each side compared to my Google Earth estimate. I missed my back line, across the ravine, by 10 to 20 ft but since that is an impassible steep bank, my estimate had been sufficient for any practical purpose.
Attached: I went over with a ladder and added a 'witness monument' to the one corner I can see from my side of the ravine. It's a yellow newspaper delivery tube nailed vertical to a tree, barely visible at the center of these photos.