They normally hammer it at the actual corner of the property, not 6 feet away.

 

If your property pin is in the road then they should have filed an easement. Check your town and check the record department where your deed if filed.

Some municipalities have all of that information available online.

Bud

 

Maybe ask them?

 

Most places here the road does not cover all the city owned land and your property may be several ft from the curb.
Water meters or just shut offs are often on the line.

 

As joed said above, rebar is placed at point of property line.

 

where I live, the iron pipes will be pined exactly on the corners except along a road. From the road, they place the pin 25 feet from the center of the road. like in this image: (NIP= new iron pipe)

if its been a while, the pin could easily be a few inches down. if you are lucky or patient, you can find it with a shovel...


just thinking about it, does your municipality have a GIS site"? an online mapping system for tax and code use? look up your address and the overlay will show the lot boundaries close enough for you to estimate your pin location (see also your platt).

 

Because it is a geological survey pin it should be on the property line . Sometimes the pin may not be on your line ,but it will be on a line that they can measure from.

 

It will say on your survey plat if the pin isn't actually on the border. I have several that are near a creek. The survey states that the actual boundary is 10' from the pin which puts it more/less the center of the creek.

 

If you have a survey and it does not say 'offset pin' (around here they use a different color cap) then it is on the property line. Sometimes when it is right at the curb they will use a PK nail.

Many older surveys said from the middle of the road but that is more in the country than the city.

 

The property description, often contained in the deed will mention the property corners. Often it will say 'to a point' which may indicate there is no monumentation or they just didn't find anything. If they set something on an offset, it will say in the description. Some corners are never set, sometimes they can be hard to find. Often you can find the next corner and measure back. Be careful relying on any GIS maps, the surveyors will tell you GIS stands for 'Get it Surveyed". Sometimes very accurate, sometimes not ,they're usually compiled from records, not actual surveys.

 

Our primary residence is in an area where long ago the property was measured to the centerline of the road and it stayed that way. The municipality has a right of way across our property for their road. In the unlikely event that the road got abandoned, we would resume full ownership rights. Property is staked from the edge of the right of way on the line that would extend to the point in the center of the road. Yea, I technically pay taxes for the land under half of the road. Most of the tax bill is related to the structures on the property, and that is the way it is. Moral of the story: It varies from place to place.

 

Our primary residence is in an area where long ago the property was measured to the centerline of the road and it stayed that way

That is how my youngest son's place is. I assume all his neighbors have similar deeds.

 

The top of my iron pipe marker was ~2" below the ground surface after 60 years. You might want to rent a metal detector.