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PLSS Corner Records — Utah

Utah surveyors file corner perpetuation records with the county surveyor when monumenting or restoring PLSS corners. A corner perpetuation record describes the monument, accessories, and tie distances.

Filing Requirements

Where Corner Records Are Filed in Utah

When a public-land corner is set, found, or restored, the surveyor files a corner perpetuation record with the county surveyor describing the monument, accessories, and ties.

County Surveyor

No statewide form published — filed on surveyor-prepared documents to the statutory content standard.

le.utah.gov

Street View Coverage

Street View Reaches 62% of Utah Townships

Of the 2,502 PLSS townships in Utah, 1,550 (62%) contain usable Google Street View imagery — meaning a surveyor can pull up the road camera view of a monument before ever leaving the office. Coverage skews toward roads and populated areas; monuments in remote rural sections are less likely to have a nearby capture.

MetricValue
Total PLSS townships2,502
Townships with Street View1,550
Coverage rate62%
Capture depthUp to 20 years of history

Corner-Plot Workflow

Pre-Field Review for Utah Corners

Upload a Utah Corner Record PDF. Corner-Plot reads the form with OCR — extracting the surveyor name, township-range-section, monument description, and every bearing and distance tie. The corner is geo-located automatically across the PLSS grid, assigning a GCDB-standard 21-character Point ID and a confidence rating of High, Medium, or Low.

When the monument sits at or near a roadway, Corner-Plot brings up Google Street View with its full capture history — up to 20 years. AI analyzes each date and returns a structured monument-condition verdict. A printable field prep report covers the resolved coordinate, aerial tie overlay, monument classification history, and original GLO field notes.

Other PLSS States

Corner Record Requirements in Other States

View all 19 PLSS states →