For a surveyor flagging the property corners of a lot is much more involved than just walking around looking for property corners to tie a little pink ribbon on.
It is a very detailed process, that involves obtaining the recorded documents of the area, running calcs, and setting up survey grade measuring equipment. All of this to seek out and find one of the existing property corners that are there, storing their coordinates, just to turn around to find the next one.
As a surveyor your client is depending on you to find the correct property corner, you know the one for their property. This is where that fancy survey grade equipment comes it. It must be very accurate (sub centimeter) to determine the inverse distance between the corners.
After finding all of the property corners that are there. Each line of the property is inversed between the two points and compared to the platted or legal description dimensions to see if the found pins are the correct pins and if they are disturbed (not in the original recorded location). This process is repeated until all of the property lines have been checked. Yes, properties have more then 4 property lines. At minimum they will have 3 lines, with an infinite max amount.
At the same time the surveyor is looking for property corners, they are also looking for possible encroachments (fences, driveways, landscaping, etc) to document on there Record of Survey.
Now lets handle the property corners that could not be found. The surveyor then starts looking at your neighbors property corners and extend out as far as necessary, to have an idea or where the clients corner should fall, without taking more or less property then necessary. This corner is now set. The field portion of the survey is now completed hopefully.
Since we had to set a property corner a Record of Survey (map of the property) is required by Arizona Boundary Survey Minimum Standards. This is prepared in the office to document the condition of the land surveyed. Meaning what monuments were found, or set, the size shape and the Land Surveyors number on them. If there was not a number and the corner has been accepted the Surveyor puts their number on it and the responsibility of it being correct.
When it is all said and done the client goes out to find the little pink flagging tied around the property corner along with a wood stake to help find the corner.
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