Maps of boundries

[HootTooten]

Hey all,

Any idea how to get a map of property boundries? I remember seeing one a long long time ago. It had the owers last name and a "Rough" outline of where their propertys borders where?

If it is online some where that would be great!

Thanks

HOOTTOOTEN

[sticknstring]

How about a county plat book?

[LightningBG]

go to the county HSOforum and search for GIS Maps (Geographic Information System), should give you everything you need including the option to look at aerial photos with the borders. Thats what I did, helps a ton. I wasn't able to print it from the site, so I did a Ctrl+print screen, then pasted into a drawing program (MS paint) then fiddled around with it a little to get what I wanted.

[Wanderer]

That's a nice piece of info LBG.

[LightningBG]

Some counties are a lot better than others with their image quality. Aitkin county is not real great, but sufficient. To me this one below is pretty good. This is where I bow hunt during the week if I want to go out before or after work.

[Scoot]

MNTrax! They make an awesome product! Shows all private/public boundries!

[Kirsch]

Scott is right about MNTRAX.

I believe what is being asked is the actual property boundaries of all private lands so if a section is split up into 3 differnt parcels for instance, showing those property lines. A few MN counties have this available but not all of them. There is no statewide effort to do this. For now, MNTRAX shows the section lines and includes the township, range and section number so it can be cross-referenced with a PLAT book. I would love to add this feature to MNTRAX but until Minnesota puts forth a state effort like Montana did, it is still a ways off.

[Tom7227]

If you are looking for a plat map you would perhaps have luck if you called the county recorder of deeds in the county you are interested in and ask them if they have them. Some of them are available from a commerical company and sometimes the county has copies you can buy. They are usually $25-50. They will give you an extremely detailed map of all the land with the property boundaries. The ones I've seen also have an index of names, location of the land owned and sometimes even a telephone number. You can get a lot of info from one of these things. Caution though is that they are only published once in a while and so the ownership info may not be up to date. Still worth the investment if you find an area you like and plan on return trips.

[brittman]

If you have a property tresspass issue certainly start with the PLAT map book and some aerial maps, but before you start criminal tresspass issues or cutting down treestands, etc, I would urge you to have your land surveyed.

This should be done anyways if you plan to log parts of your land that have neighboring woods.

[HootTooten]

here's the senario. i am going up to hunt a piece of land that has been in the family for 20+ years. I nor anyone else has hunted the land since 1997. What I am woried about is the neighbors that have figured this out and have started to incroch on to our side of the "line". It is in Aitkin county and LBG has it spot-on. I was able to get a general idea of the boundries but their site leaves alot of wiggle room.

the best peice of information that I got out of the maps they have is the Names of the owners land around ours.

I dont expect any issue but i feel better atleast having the added knowlege going in.

Thanks!

HOOTTOOTEN

[Walleye Guy]

You may need to have a surveyor come out to the land. It will cost you but it will be worth it.

[HootTooten]

Walleye, I am definetly going to get it surveyed this winter. No dought thats the best way to get true markings. Any idea what such a project costs?

HOOTTOOTEN

[bigbluepirahna]

We were looking at the same thing for our hunting property just to know where the real line was, since we just bought it and it hasn't ever been posted. Since our land is just for hunting, and the land around it is farm land and pasture land, nothing around has been surveyed. It gets pretty expensive if your section hasn't ever been broken apart before. The quotes we are getting are anywhere from $5,000 - $8,000 to just mark the corner points on 160 acres.

[Kyler]

BBP has it correct. I am a surveyor and do work in Aitkin County and there are some areas that have very little existing survey data so the cost could be $5k, $8k, even $10k. On the other hand, if there is some good section data available, the cost could easily be 70-80% less.

The extra cost is a benefit to anybody else in your section that wishes to have survey work done so, if you can work with your neighbors, you can split the cost of the section work. Unfortunately, we rarely come across a case where neighbor's want to work together because your neighbor won't want a survey...until you are done paying for the section work!

Just get your full legal description (not your tax legal) and send it to the surveyor of your choice. Keep in mind that in most cases, a survey is cheaper to have done in the fall/winter because the leaves are not on the trees and it is easier to work through woods and swamps.

Good Luck!