A  U.S. Border Patrol truck sits idle in the distance, while a line of surveyor’s stakes stretch beside the dirt road, which runs along thick clumps of river cane hiding the Rio Grande.

 

Each stake is tagged with a plastic orange ribbon. “Proposed Fence” is written along their sides ...

After a city engineer and a city surveyor tell Jeffrey Cornfeld that the land adjacent to his property is abandoned, Cornfeld tracks down descendants of the last-known owner and pays them $300 for three quit-claim deeds.

 

Now, after spending close to $200,000 creating an outdoor paradise for his lakefront mansion, the city says it's publicly owned land.

After being snubbed by England's Geological Society, this 19th-century surveyor and creator of the "Map That Changed the World" finally gets some due respect.

The proposed border fence in Texas puts federal surveyors in the middle of a fight between the federal courts and land owners.

 

This Alabama newspaper lists 14 names of famous--and infamous--Alabamians buried in a historic cemetery.  And one of them was a surveyor ...

The South Carolina Senate approves a bill allowing surveyors to sign and seal a map of Lake Greenwood for the federal government, without it becoming a plat--a move that will potentially save millions of dollars in surveying costs.