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Dunn County surveyor underscores importance of re‑monumentation and original PLSS corners
Summary
County survey staff told the committee that the public land survey system's original section corners still control property descriptions and outlined ongoing re‑monumentation work, corner visits and the public benefits of preserving physical monuments.
Dunn County’s survey division presented its 2024 annual work summary on June 4 and emphasized the continued importance of preserving public land survey system (PLSS) corners and field monuments that define property boundaries.
"Between 1849 and 1849, wood posts were set at each one of the x's. Those posts were set to control all the property ownership within that square mile," County Survey staff member Greg Botzer said during his presentation, describing how eight original corner positions in a township section control all modern…
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