Property maps

[Huntin&Fishin]

Does any one know where or how i could view some mn property lines, like a county, and who owns what?

[Archerysniper]

It's called a plot book and they are sold for each county most often at the county goverment center give them a call and they will know where you can get one.

[hockeybc69]

Countys like Sherburne where I live have online mapping with property boundaries.

Very cool. Where are you looking for that info? Maybe contact your county office to see if they have it online.

[creepworm]

Just about every county has it online. It is a very nice feature. Some counties it is not real easy to navigate and takes some messing around to get the arial photo and property lines and roads all in the same picture. A plat book will also work but does not have arial photos.

[Pinusbanksiana]

I could possibly help you, I have data layers for most counties in the northern part of MN.

[Huntin&Fishin]

ive searched quite a bit but guess not enough ha well lookin at the rual parts of hennipen county

[Tom7227]

It's called a plot book and they are sold for each county most often at the county goverment center give them a call and they will know where you can get one.

Actually the plot of the book is hard to find in a plat book. Plat is the correct name. You can plot you plan in a plat book.

You can find ownership of property in Hennipen County at:

http://www.hennepin.us/portal/site/Henne...00049114689RCRD

[Riverratpete]

I have a current Plat Map book of Hubbard county, would love to discuss ownership of some of the supposidly posted "No Trespassing" signed areas on according to the Plat Book, "County Land", DNR, etc. Wonder if the counties or state ever go through their areas to actually verify ownership? Sounds like a good job for someone.

[TruthWalleyes]

On the MN DNR HSOforum, do a search for Plat Books. You can order any county and have them delivered to you. I believe they're around $40 per county, but if you gain access to a few different parcels of land, it will be worth the cost.

[Tom7227]

You can check ownership of Hubbard County property at:

http://www.co.hubbard.mn.us/wf2_hubbardpublic/Default.aspx

I doubt there's a county in MN that could afford to have someone drive around and check to see if No Tresspassing signs had been placed improperly.

[Riverratpete]

I understand having someone actually physically check out land is financially unacceptable, its just pie in the sky stuff really, I'm just saying that I find it interesting that some of the the state and county land per the Plat book is just that, not private, yet when you drive by county/state land per the PLAT Book, there are posted signs all over. Don't think this is just a Hubbard County thing either I think goofballs do it all over the state. I'd love to run into someone on the county land and have them try to tell/show me ownership of their "posted" land.

[LightningBG]

I understand having someone actually physically check out land is financially unacceptable, its just pie in the sky stuff really, I'm just saying that I find it interesting that some of the the state and county land per the Plat book is just that, not private, yet when you drive by county/state land per the PLAT Book, there are posted signs all over. Don't think this is just a Hubbard County thing either I think goofballs do it all over the state. I'd love to run into someone on the county land and have them try to tell/show me ownership of their "posted" land.

Just go hunt it

[LightningBG]

Hennepin co has a pretty good GIS system. The link above from Tom will get you there.

Here is what it will look like:

[JayinMN]

Quote:

I have a current Plat Map book of Hubbard county, would love to discuss ownership of some of the supposidly posted "No Trespassing" signed areas on according to the Plat Book, "County Land", DNR, etc. Wonder if the counties or state ever go through their areas to actually verify ownership?

Most plat books are not updated every year and since real estate transaction can happen at any time the land that might have been public may not be anymore. I have also seen while looking through the St. Louis county plat book that parcels of land have the wrong owners names on them and it has carried over to "updated" copies. They are probably the best tool out their for us to use but they are far from fail proof. If a no trespassing sign does not have a name or phone number on it the land is not legally posted and I would question it. The exception to that would be agricultural land which does not need to be posted but the owner could get away with posting it with just "No trespassing" signs.

[Scoot]

Seems to me that MNTrax for your gps would solve all your problems. Check them out...

[Tom7227]

A plat book publisher has to get ownership info from the registrar of titles. The plat book has to be at least 3-4 months out of date the day it is published simply due to the time it takes to get that work done. I suspect that MNTrax has the same time lag problem. The most accurate way to know ownership is to check at the courthouse, and frankly some of that data is not timely - Ramsey County was months behind changing records a few years ago. The websites like what I have posted earlier, along with a check on the property tax info -often available on the web as well - is about as good as you're going to do. I suspect that most of the types of land that folks on this HSOforum are looking at really don't change ownership all that often anyway. City and maybe lakeshore stuff changes frequently but I doubt that there's much movement in ownership where we hunt.

[Pinusbanksiana]

7 years is the average for land ownership.

[Kirsch]

MNTRAX does not include private land ownership with the exception of Clay county. There are 87 counties in MN, and probably more than 50% have converted their records from paper to GIS format. The issue is many counties want $5,000+ for the data per year. Until MN counties change this policy and allow companies access to the data for low or no fee like Montana does, I don't see any company creating a GPS map for Minnesota. I would have the majority of MN PLAT information already in MNTRAX if it was economically feasible.