property survey

[Unregistered-annamarie]

When looking a drawing of my property survey, are the measurements in feet, yard, or square feet? For example, 54.98′ or 212.84′, this is interpeted as 54.98′ or 212.84′ feet, right?
Thanks

[Unregistered-LLW]

Feet is what’s I’ve seen used. ‘ = feet

[carl21l]

the surveyor uses feet (102.32) with the ‘ symbol for feet.

the bearings are expressed as example: 39 degrees 15 minutes 17 seconds using the degree symbol and ‘ for minutes and ” for seconds of angle.

the area in normally expressed in acres and decimal parts of an acre. for very small areas, the surveyor may use square feet.

an FYI: on very old survey reports, you may find the use of rods, chains, and furlongs as units of length.

JMHO

Carl

[Unregistered-HarryC]

The dimensions are in feet. If you’re not in that biz, you probably dont have a tape that measures in tenths of a foot. Convert the right of the decimal point to inches by multiplying by 12.

54.98′ : .98′ times 12 = 11.75,
so its 54 feet 11.75 inches.

212.84′ : 212 feet 10.08 inches.

If you want to convert the 10.08 inches further, multiply the .08 inches by 16 to get sixteenths of an inch:
.08 times 16 = 1.28, so its a little over 1/16″
212.84′ = 212′ 10-1/16″

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