corner ties

Northeast corner of Section 36, T110N, R16W, 5^th p.m.

Statement of Evidence:

June 1855 During original Public Land Survey, the Deputy Surveyor, set post at Section corner in stream and established a wit-ness corner 150 links north of Section corner in stream.

1856 Truman Beckwith, Land Surveyor, platted the original Plat of Zumbrota. The plat shows the section corner at the Northwest Plat Corner in the Zumbro River.

August 27 1889 Louis P. Wolff, County Surveyor, makes an Auditors Subdivision of the Southwest Quarter of Section 30, Township 110, Range 15. The Auditors Subdivision shows a discrepancy in the location of the Southwest corner of Section 30, Township 110, Range 15, of 5 rods in a north-south direction.

January 7, 1890 Louis P. Wolff, County Surveyor, makes an Auditors Subdivision of the Northwest Quarter of Section 31, Township 110, Range 15, Except Zumbrota and additions. The Auditors Subdivision shows a discrepancy in the location of the Northwest corner of Section 31, Township 110, Range 15, of 5 rods in a north-south direction. The southerly location is shown in the Zumbro River as also noted in the Original Public Land Survey notes.

April 1923 A. E. Rhame, County Surveyor, on survey for Mr. Wood, shows the Section corner 600 feet east of an iron. He shows 2 irons on the south line of Section 25, Township 110, Range 16 and indicates that the line is 40 years old and the irons were set by a former County Surveyor. Rhame also indicates that the City platting was not correct, he states that they must have used the witness stone by mistake as the true corner came in the river. However, Rhame does not show any monument in place at the section corner. See survey number 460 on file in the County Recorders Office.

April 1923 A. E. Rhame shows section corner being midway between a stone monument at the northeast corner of Section 25 and a good fence line along the south lines of Section 36, Township 110, Range 16 and Section 31, Township 110, Range 15. He also shows irons on the south line of Section 25, Township 110, Range 16 and states that the irons are 40 years old and were set by the former County Surveyor. See surveys number 461 and 462, on file in the County Recorders Office.

August 1926 A.E. Rhame, on a survey for Mr. Nelson and Mr. Sigmond, shows two locations for the south line of the Southeast Quarter of Section 25, T110N, R16W. Both lines are monumented with irons in concrete. Mr. Rhame indicates the northerly line as the real Section line and the southerly line as being the wrong line as proven by L.P. Wolff and other engineers. See Survey No. 692 on file in the County Recorders Office.

June 1981 The Goodhue County Land Surveying Company searched the area with an electronic metal locator and found nothing. Curtis Benson was contacted and he indicated that he had excavated the area with a backhoe about 5 years prior.

The existing survey information was studied and several monuments along the north line of the Northeast Quarter of Section 36, shown in said surveys, were recovered. See Certificate dated June 1981 for the location and type of monuments found. The four monuments found lined up exactly. The west line of the plat of Zumbrota was determined from existing monuments near 1^st Street. A straight line between said west line of Zumbrota at 1^st Street and the East Quarter of Section 36 was determined and extended north. The corner was remonumented using obliterated methods at the intersection of said northerly extension and the easterly extension of the monument line on the North line of the Northeast Quarter of Section 36.

August 30, 1989 Dale Marty, Goodhue County Survey Technician, found the aluminum monument as per Certificate of Location filed on August 5, 1981.

June 1999 Bryan Balcome, Goodhue County Survey Technician, found the Goodhue County monument set in 1981 at a depth of 1.2 feet. New field ties were taken.