If you look at typical section image you can probably work out which parcel I would be talking about if I said the legal description was “the west 20 acres of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Sec 33, Township 2 North, Range 3 West” etc. Then usually it gets into acres and/or metes and bounds.įor example. Then those can then sometimes be divided further into quarters. And then those quarters are divided into quarters. And when you break into the sections it just gets worse. So legal descriptions using the PLSS go against our natural way of seeing geographic locations in our minds. You see, it makes much more sense if he said Morocco, then if you wanted more detail, and he was inclined to give it, he would then give the rest. There is your you ‘ahhh’ moment as you can then put together the rest of the puzzle regarding the country and know he is from Morocco. If you ask and he tells you “Boulevard Ziraoui”, most likely you would still be in a mystery. Right away if you don’t recognize the accent, you want to know what country in the world is he from. If you were to meet a person and you asked him where he was from and he said “260” in a thick accent, you most likely would go “huh?”, thinking maybe it was a language barrier thing.
#Metes and bounds legal description zip
First the street number, then the street, then the town, then the state, with zip cope. But if you think about it, really, that too is backwards. When we think of and address we see that it is written this way as well.
The reason for that is there is a fundamental change we have to make in our minds from the way the legal is written and the way we have to see it in our minds, because you will find when doing title searches that the legal descriptions using PLSS will be written backwards from what our minds would like to interpret them simply because we are used to looking at things differently. Once we have established the range, township, and then section, we can then get down to business as to what part of that is our subject parcel.Īnd notice that again I listed the backwards from the way legal descriptions show them. So, you can see where we would get the Section 33 from in the grid. The weird thing is, the sections are numbered in a serpentine fashion from the top right going down. Then inside each of those townships we have sections. If I told you that was of the 5th P.M.(Principal Meridian), some of you might even know that is in southern-central Missouri, in Dent County. Usually it is abbreviated as S33, T35N, R6W.
For example it with say something like Section 33, Township 35 North, Range 6 West.
Now, the system itself lists these in reverse order when looking at a legal description. When using the PLSS, we are dealing with Ranges, Townships, and Sections. But I will go into how I use Google in a later article. I find that Google is exceptionally useful when trying to decipher legal descriptions using both the PLSS and Metes and Bounds combinations. In this case it can get tricky and difficult without the right knowledge, mindset, and tools. And when doing Cell Tower Searches where the Site Acquisitions Manager has decided that the tower needs to be in a subdivision, you usually have to go back in time past the time when the land was subdivided and into the title history of the parent parcels from which the subdivision came from. Then, depending on the state, we find either the PLSS system or Metes & Bounds, or a combination of the two being used for the legal descriptions. But unfortunately that isn’t always the case, especially when doing rural residential title searches or Cell Tower Searches. As abstractors, we always hope for the Lot and Block Survey System or Plat System when opening up an order from a client for the first time as that is the easiest.
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