HOW-TO GUIDE

Creating Survey Drawings

1. Start a new drawing using the <Land – site plan> template and set a scale
for the plan that will approximately cover your drawing size. There are
currently no templates set up for this specific task: some setup items will
have to be changed.
2. Drawing Setup: Type <Units> at the command prompt in the new
drawing. From the Units dialog box set the Length, Angle and Area to
match the dialog box below and check that the other noted items are
correct.

3. Pick the Dimension toolbar <Dim Style> dropdown box and select the
appropriate style to match the drawing scale that you set up in step 1
above.
4. Entering Coordinates: Always start at 0,0,0 and enter the coordinates
form the Legal description in the format shown below. Property lines
belong on layer <C-Prop>.

Command: L
LINE Specify first point: 0,0,0

Specify next point or [Undo]: 142.37’ <N12d14’12”E

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Surveyor Terms:

1. ‘More or Less’ = they didn’t have the technology or experience to know the
real heading or distance to make a parcel description ‘close’.
2. Rod (perch, pole) = 16.5 feet or 198 inches
3. 1 Acre = 160 square rods
4. Chain = 66 feet
5. 1 Mile = 80 chains
6. 1 Link = 7.92 inches or .66 feet or 1/100 of a Chain

Resource reading:

Measuring America : how an untamed wilderness shaped the United States

and fulfilled the promise of democracy

Web sites:

http://www.surveyor.slco.org/

http://www.slcgov.com/info/gis/

http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/collections/sanborn/

http://history.utah.gov/utah_history_research_center/digitalcollections.html