The road and tree are visual references. A surveyor isn't going to calculate the center of a tree. (The tree can die and fall down, the road can be moved)
The surveyor uses the stake to zero the theodolite, then the plot can be surveyed/
Trees are monuments and are often used as property corners. Granted, not as much as they used to be but still not uncommon. Actually in the order of boundary law evidence, natural monuments outweigh artificial monuments.Surveys are not done by trees, they use monuments to measure from. Have you looked at your plat from the county assessors office?
It should tell you exactly where the measuring points are.
I made a post in the past about property lines. Long story short I technically ended up owning my neighbors driveway after a new survey was requested by a new property owner. My neighbor ended up owning several feet of his neighbors property and so on and so on for each neighbor. The last neighbor ended up owning half the main 2 lane highway running beside his property...lol Of course everybody's property line stayed the same as it was before the new survey. No way was the state going to compensate the neighbor owning half the highway.
I have met a surprisingly large number of people who have bought houses / land only going by the real estate agent's word on where the property lines are.....
Am I just me being cautious - do most people buy land without knowing where the property lines are located?
In my state after 25 years of being undisputed as a property barrier a fence will become the property line even if its not set on the actual line.My last piece of land actually used trees as a border and they were included in the deed description, so that's why I assumed this to be the case here. A stake in the ground makes more sense, lol.
He's not disputing it...yet. This started when his toothless retard of an idiot was bushhogging the field and came well across the fenceline. He removed a lot of blackberry bushes that we'd wanted to harvest from, and I ended up speaking to King Turd. He actually claims that the fence - which has likely been there since before either of us were born - wasn't the property line.
Sigh. Just my luck to have a rich neighbor who's a dick.