Tolbert Associates, LLC

06/24/2022

Haven't posted for quite a while, but this is a nice article about a celebration of Steve Parrish, one of surveying heroes...

https://www.berntseninternational.com/news-events/steve-parrish-a-living-legend?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=finalpoint&utm_id=cc

12/10/2019

This is a project the Tolbert Associates did the mapping for a few years back. It is a beautiful property...

EUGENE, Ore. – The City of Eugene held an open house for the public Monday at the downtown library to show off proposed plans for a new park in SE Eugene. KVAL. At 515 acres, Suzanne Arlie Park is the largest park in the City’s park system. It's named after philanthropist Suzanne Arlie.....

11/03/2018

While conducting research in order to reestablish a property boundary in downtown Eugene, I ran across this map from 1963 of the old Artic Circle on East Broadway. I thought the addition of the sign detail was particularly interesting… Hamburgers 19¢… I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday…

10/22/2017

Just finished my 2 year stint on the PLSO state board... This is an amazing group of professionals... One of our main focuses is how to encourage the next generation of Land Surveyors... Also great to visit with next year's chapter president Jeremy A Sherer on the way up and back from Eugene...

The PLSO Board of Directors is meeting for their Quarterly Meeting today in Salem. They are currently speaking with Lobbyist Darrell Fuller.

12/01/2016

Monumenting property corners in a new subdivision today... It's a really nice day...

11/27/2016

http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/35031482-75/mapping-gives-history-of-columbia-river-gorge-slides.html.csp

The landscape has shifted more than thought, and its residents should be aware, experts say

10/07/2016

It is fantastic to see that this hurdle has been cleared...

Emerald Village takes a big step forward !

09/22/2016

An interesting article that puts a positive spin on your kid's time playing video games...

05/26/2016

Below is question and answer concerning ALTA surveys that was posted by my national organization. I'm re-posting it because it's a question that probably comes up more often that it should:

ALTA/NSPS question

Question:
It seems that I'm at odds with some on whether in performing either a boundary survey or an ALTA/NSPS survey one should find as many property corners or monuments as possible on the block in which the parcel is situated. Some say just locate the property corners of the site for an ALTA/NSPS survey, while if you are doing a boundary then you go outside your site. I believe you should do this for both in order to prove that the parcel is where it is supposed to be. Am I wrong in thinking this way? Is an ALTA/NSPS survey more like a supersized mortgage survey where you just find the property corners of that parcel or site, and then any additional items on Schedule A? I'm curious now.

Response:
Those who say that an ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey is something less than a boundary survey are woefully misinformed and have apparently not read the Standards. A Land Title Survey is not just a supersized mortgage survey. Here is what Section 3.D. of the 2016 (and 2011) Standards say about this issue. "The boundary lines and corners of any property being surveyed as part of an ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey shall be established and/or retraced in accordance with appropriate boundary law principles governed by the set of facts and evidence found in the course of performing the research and fieldwork." Clearly an ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey is a boundary survey. It's a boundary survey to a higher set of standards than a "generic" boundary survey. Someone approaching a Land Title Survey as something less than a boundary survey would likely suffer a claim of malpractice or negligence if something goes wrong.
I know most folks

03/28/2016

Lucky... the wasn't built by one of our local home builders...

I feel stupid for not being able to spot it...