On Jan 5, at 4:06 PM, Neal Hammon wrote:
Lee, you are certainly correct, but I can see you have never done any surveying. No survey that I ever heard about had a boundary using yards. If you check the Kentucky Department of State, you will find that the first 30,000 surveys made in Kentucky used the measurement of poles and chains for the boundaries.
Au contraire! When I was in high school, I worked for the Marquette County land office surveyer. She was doing a state mandated check of boundary lines and road rights of way. One of the pains was to translate the old chain/pole/link measurements done around 1900 by the CCI surveyors into feet to two decimal places for the more modern equipment, because chains were no longer being used.
I got the job because I was the only applicant who could use trigonometry to solve a triangle not containing a right angle. It was a question on the application form.
I still know chain=66 feet, pole=chain/4, link=pole/25It amuses me that the original definition of the acre was a rectangle with width one chain and length one furlong because in the 1600s Edmund Gunter decided that was the right amount of land for one farmer to work.
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