[or-roots] Lake Co survey

[Leslie Chapman]

Actualy what you are looking for is the "original survey notes"  or more
likely a resurvey on a USGLO contract. Alsthough in Lake Co late 1800's
might have been original entry.

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/county/cplake/roadbr.html

Is a Oregon archives page that spells out the location of a lot of the kind
of record you are looking for.

I just checked the Lake County web site and they don't appear to have any of
their records available online, though I don't know of any county that has
original survey notes available on line in appreciable amounts.

HEre is the County surveyor info;

Rodney Callaghan

Surveyor
513 Center Street
Lakeview, Oregon 97630
Telephone: (541) 947-6037
FAX: (541) 947-6015

 rcallaghan at co.lake.or.us

 I would either email him or give hime a phone call, I would suggest having
the legal description available if you call or including it in your email,
along with any clue you might have as to the actual date. If you could find
out who did the work that generated this question they would probably still
have the information too, a thought to keep in mind in case finding the
original record is difficult.

It should not be that difficult, however, as anytime a surveyor is doing any
kind of survey that affects the location of any corner set in those original
surveys and resurveys he/she has to reference the original notes and also if
the corner is being re-established because it was destroyed the specfic
"calls" in the original notes must be referenced to justify the
re-establishing of the corner if there is any problem actually resetting it.

"Calls" are references  to land forms, sometimes to vegetation changes and
the like, may also include trails, roads, houses etc. We have survey here in
Gardiner Reedsport that references the Jedediah Smith Party massacre, as in
the notes mention where it took place and how the surveyor knew that.

Another thing that should be in the notes is the names of all people doing
the survey, and each day should be dated. Most offices only have typed up
transcriptions of the original notes, but for something like that it is
entirely possible someone somewhere has the actual notebook the survey party
was using when the indinas killed them.

Hope this helps.

Les C


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Here is the "new" location for the cadastral GLO maps, which were made from
the surveys (at least some of them) that you may be discussing.

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/GIS/Data/Oregon/GLO/index.htm

If you know township, and range, you should get whatever is there. Now, if
the survey never got far enough along to become a "map" I would guess that
the original records are either at Salem Archives or at the BLM office
there.  I've never checked the Archives for this type of material.

Pat (in Tucson)
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[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Diane
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Subject: [or-roots] survey records


A friend told me about a location where he and a crew were doing a survey in
Lake County.  He said that they got the survey records 'from Salem'.  He was
working for the BLM, I think, at the time.  And as they reviewed the
original records and and were doing a sub-division (not the residental kind)
the survey ended.  In another hand writing were the notes that were written
something like this, "the survey team members were all killed by Indians".
The date was in the late 1800"s.

I know the area and the legal description fairly close.  How do I find the
actual records?

Diane