Tooele County staff on Nov. 5 demonstrated a new online "tie‑sheet" map that plots Public Land Survey System section monuments and links each monument to its survey tie‑sheet PDF, officials said at the county council meeting in the County Building council chambers.

The map is intended to help surveyors and members of the public locate section monuments and view the associated corner‑record PDF, county staff said. Marissa Snyder, of GIS and community developments, said the site offers address and township‑range‑section search tools and that clicking a monument pops up the official name, monument type, material, surveyor name, X/Y/Z coordinates and a link to the tie‑sheet PDF for that monument.

"This isn't survey grade — it's representational," Marissa Snyder said, advising users that the online map is designed to show monument locations and link to the official tie sheets rather than substitute for field surveys. Hayden Langston, the county's licensed surveyor, told the council the corner records he has produced are survey‑grade and that the monument coordinates on those records are "subcentimeter accuracy," adding that a surveyor using the corner record would "be within a dime on top of the monument."

The presenters said the county currently hosts the tie‑sheet PDFs on an internal server and the GIS page uses a script to retrieve a PDF when a user clicks a monument. Snyder said staff will continue adding monuments and tie sheets and that updates to the publicly visible map will be pushed on a roughly monthly schedule as new points are added. She also provided contact information for the recorder/surveyor's office on the map page and noted the map is a work in progress.

Survey staff described longer‑term benefits: a public, searchable index of section monument locations helps surveyors retrace property and protects property rights when monuments are found beneath parks, pavement or vegetation. Hayden Langston described ongoing work to locate original nineteenth‑ and early‑twentieth‑century monuments in sections of the county and said some areas require case‑by‑case resurveys because earlier dependent resurveys (in the 1980s) used mathematical placement rather than the full occupational evidence required to retrace original lines.

Presenters credited an interdepartmental team — GIS, the recorder/surveyor's office and IT — and external examples such as Utah County's site for technical guidance. Staff said the map establishes a framework for future public mapping projects and will be expanded as staff rename tie‑sheet PDFs, load them into GIS, and automate retrieval.

County staff urged surveyors and members of the public to treat the website as a locating and research tool and to contact the recorder/surveyor's office with questions or to report missing monuments. The map does not change legal parcel boundaries; it provides links to the corner records and tools to help locate monuments that support property retracement.