North Quarter
Corner of Section 18, T113N, R16W, 5th P.M.
Statement of Evidence:
December 1853 Thomas Simpson, U.S. Deputy Surveyor, set a post for the corner and marked two bearing trees during the Original Public Land Survey.
September 1929 The Minnesota Highway Department made a survey of T.H. #61 and measured to the quarter corner position that was on the centerline of old Highway #3 running east-west and on projected fence lines running north-south. No monument is mentioned.
July 1962 E.M. Paulson, surveyed a 10-acre parcel adjacent to the North Quarter Corner in Section 18 but no monument is mentioned.
July 1987 Doug Rude, Yaggy Colby Associates, excavated a 13' x 18' hole, searching at the occupied position and at the 1929 highway position and no evidence was found.
March 1988 Doug Rude, Yaggy Colby Associates, set a Goodhue County Telspar monument at the 1929 Highway position and measured land ties.
An analysis of the record and survey data indicates the 1929 Highway Department Land Tie notes best perpetuates the position of the Original Public Land corner. The monument is accepted as marking the quarter corner.
For further information, contact Yaggy Colby Associates, Rochester, Minnesota.
July 1996 Dale Marty, Goodhue County Survey Technician, found the telespar monument set in 1988 laying flat in the road ditch. A ¾-inch by 24-inch long iron bar was found bent, at the location indicated on the previous Certificate of Location. The ¾-inch iron bar was pulled and replaced with a Goodhue County Telespar monument.
Summer
1996 The monument was
destroyed when Trunk Highway 61 was regarded from a two lane to a four-lane
roadway.
July 28,
1999 Minnesota Department of
Transportation set a 2-inch square pipe with 4-inch cast iron disk at the
position of the previous monument. New
ties were measured.
For further
information, Contact the Minnesota Department of Transportation Surveys Office
in Rochester, Minnesota.