missurvey

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ survey

Noun

missurvey (plural missurveys)

1. An inaccurate survey.
   • 1874, State of California, Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly, page 253:

     Well, my knowledge, so far as it goes, is that a great many deputy surveyors have misstated facts and made missurveys.

   • 1967, American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of the Surveying and Mapping Division, page 122:

     The surveyor is usually called in after the occupation is discovered to be foreign and therefore an encroachment; then the misplacement is found to be the result of a missurvey, or no survey.

   • 1985, Imre Sutton, Ralph Leon Beals, Irredeemable America: The Indians' Estate and Land Claims, page 136:

     The case comes so replete with examples of intertribal counterclaims to areas, evidence of missurveys of reservation lands, unconscionable low payments, and so forth that it fairly represents a "standard" case, if such exists.

   • 1991, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Settlement of Land Claims of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians in the State of Washington, page 255:

     In the 1870s, R.h. Milroy, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Washington Territory, recommended to the Department of the Interior that an additional executive order correct the missurvey of 1856 with regard to the ownership of tidelands.

   • 1992, F. L. Kafka, Tunnel to Glory: A Novel, page 146:

     Have you ever heard of a missurvey suit winning?

Verb

missurvey (third-person singular simple present missurveys, present participle missurveying, simple past and past participle missurveyed)

1. To survey inaccurately; to produce a missurvey.
   • 1983, Snake River Gem State Hydroelectric Project License, pages 4-25:

     BLM holds this parcel in reserve under the Omitted Lands Act of 1962, which provided BLM with the authority to clear the titles and hold or dispose of lands missurveyed along the course of the Snake River ( Marty Benham, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho Falls Office, May 1982, personal communication).

   • 1984, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs, The Impact of Coal Land Exchanges on Value of Indian-owned Coal, page 9:

     As you know, since 1946, Congress has been trying to resolve the problem of the 105th meridian land that was missurveyed by the Federal Government on our easternmost border.

   • 1990, Frank J. Doherty, Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York, page 374:

     A note in the ELP states: "Land sold to Eliab Yeoman, then to John Clapp, then Jesse Oakly and then to David Barker was missurveyed and had to be redone.

   • 1993, The National Forests of the Northern Region: Living Legacy, page 59:

     Some lands were dropped because they were missurveyed, others because they were submarginal in timber growth potential, and others because they were agricultural in nature and claimed for farming under the Homestead Acts of 1906 and 1912.

   • 2008, Annals of Iowa - Volume 67, page 274:

     The lines are, from north to south: Missouri's 1837 claim intersecting the Des Moines River rapids; the 1808 Osage treaty limit as missurveyed in 1816; the Osage line as it should have been marked; and a division intersecting the rapids in the Mississippi River.

   • 2019, Phyllis Root, The Lost Forest:

     We do know that the chief of the U.S. Forest Service wrote a letter dated December 2, 1958, in which he requested a resurvey of an area of more than one hundred acres that had been missurveyed “either through gross error or fraud.”