Describing Real Estate

Question 1

Surveying the land does the following:

Answer 1

Will clearly define the property and its boundaries and will reveal any potential issues related to those boundaries.

Question 2

A description of the land that specifies the boundaries and location of a piece of real property

Answer 2

Legal Description

Question 3

A professional on-site measurement of the lot lines and dimensions of a property, including the location of any improvements (such as a house) on the lot, any encroachments that may exist, and any easements of public record.

Answer 3

Survey

Question 4

What are the Three Methods of Land Description

Answer 4

Metes and bounds, lot and block and rectangular survey system.

Question 5

This system uses monuments, compass headings, and directions.

Answer 5

Metes and bounds

Question 6

This system takes large parcel of land is surveyed and then divided into smaller parcels. Each smaller parcel is identified by a letter or number. Blocks are groups of contiguous parcels bordered by streets and are numbered as well (think city block).

Answer 6

Lot and Block

Question 7

This system divides surveyed land into six-mile-square townships, which are further divided. This system isn’t used in the original 13 colonies or in Texas, West Virginia, or Kentucky.

Answer 7

Rectangular Survey System

Question 8

Which land description system provides plat references

Answer 8

Lot and Block

Question 9

A permanent physical marker that is either man-made or natural

Answer 9

Monuments

Question 10

The direction and distance of a line forming the boundary of the property

Answer 10

Metes

Question 11

The physical features that define the boundaries of the land

Answer 11

Bounds

Question 12

Beginning at a stake and stones about 30 feet from the center of the brook that runs across the road south westerly from the dwelling house of the late Jebediah Smith now occupied by the widow Callie Thornton and in the west line of the highway leading by the dwelling house now occupied by the widow Callie Thornton …

Answer 12

Metes and Bounds

Question 13

Lot 6 of Block 3 of the East Subdivision plat as recorded in Map Book 18, Page 11 at the Recorder of Deeds

Answer 13

Lot and Block

Question 14

First step for Lot and Block

Answer 14

Either a metes and bounds or a rectangular survey description is always the starting point.

Question 15

This Rectangular Survey System is also known as ___

Answer 15

The Public Land Survey System (PLSS)

Question 16

A series of surveys that divide land into townships that are six miles by six miles square (for a total area of 36 square miles or 23,040 acres).

Answer 16

PLSS or Rectangular Survey System

Question 17

Consists of 36 one-square-mile sections

Answer 17

Townships

Question 18

The north-south line that runs through the initial point

Answer 18

Principal Meridian

Question 19

An east-west line from which all measurements originate

Answer 19

Base line

Question 20

The east-west lines of a survey

Answer 20

Townships Lines

Question 21

The north-south lines of a survey

Answer 21

Range Lines

Question 22

Consists of 640 acres

Answer 22

Section

Question 23

North-south lines that do not run through the initial point

Answer 23

Range Lines

Question 24

East-west lines that do not run through the initial point

Answer 24

Townships Lines

Question 25

the location, size and shape of any improvements on the property

Answer 25

spot survey

Question 26

shows the location and dimensions of the property

Answer 26

Survey Sketch

Question 27

The first step in the land survey process

Answer 27

Research historical records

Question 28

The point from which the elevations are measured

Answer 28

Datum

Question 29

References to mark datum points

Answer 29

Benchmarks