Just be careful relying on tax maps to determine boundary lines (this includes services like OnX) Tax maps/records are intended only as a role for levying taxes. In almost 20 years of being a land surveyor I can assure I have run into way more instances of incorrect tax maps then I have of people claiming public land as their own. Poor tax maps/plats are a also a lot more common on our side of the Mississippi where much of the land was surveyed prior to the PLSS system.
And be careful of GW’s relying on GIS mapping as well.
A few years back myself, my son and 2 other guys we discover had gotten permission that week from my buddy were duck hunting on a 32 acre parcel my buddy owned. One of the guys went to the boat and on the river there was a warden there ready to write all 4 a trespassing to hunt waterfowl ticket. Not cheap and basically a loss of license since it’s an 18 pt violation and you only get 18 pts to lose.
The guy comes back and tells me the warden wants to talk to me. I walk over and he tells me I’m trespassing. I tell him I am not. He shows me a screenshot from the county GIS. Now I know I have him and not the other way around. After about 25-30 minutes of back and forth he calls the owner and asks if we have permission. He’s told yes. Then he tells the owner that it didn’t matter as we weren’t on his property so the owner asks him where we were and the warden tells him. The owner promptly informs him that if we were where he says we were that we were indeed on the correct property.
The warden says “well I guess I need to do a little more research” and the owner invites him to his office because he has all the research needed. Warden asks how much research might he have and the owner says....”enough to satisfy me as the property owner and as a professional land surveyor”......
At this point the warden realized he was biting off more than he could chew so he gets off the phone then promptly comes after me again and asks how I know the owner.....”next time you’re in Columbia swing by the LLR office and pull his file and look up his application for licensure. When you do you’ll see my name be use I’m the professional land surveyor that trained him”. Boom. Get some you little ****.
So he wrote me and the other guy both $125 tickets for coming up the river that morning without our anchor lights on
Bottom line is, the county GIS showed this parcel as being about 10.5 acres. Trust me, it’s 32.