Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Klamath County Records Inventory
Corner Survey Records
1858-[ongoing]
Series documents the establishment and/or restoration of survey corners or monuments by the county surveyor or registered land surveyors. Records include maps, field survey restoration notes, historical notes, and indexes. Information includes description of corners; existing markers; descriptions of new markers and any changes made to the locations; property owners; township, range, and section numbers; donation land claim information; date the new markers were set; and surveyor's signatures.
Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Surveyor's Office Public
Research Room:
[Assessor's Maps-modified to index surveys and corner
restorations], ca.1858-present (13 volumes);
Bearing Trees of U.S. Surveys Corner Restoration Record
[copies], ca.1858-present (10 volumes);
Corner Ref. [Reference Record-to roads], 1976-present (3
binders);
Corner Search & Restoration Record, ca.1858-ca.1974 (.40
cu.ft.);
Field Notes of Surveys in Oregon Klamath Reservation [includes
corner restorations-with index], vol. 8-11, ca.1866-ca.1899 (4
volumes);
[Metsker's Atlas of Klamath County Oregon-modified to document
corner restoration actions-with index], ca.1961 (1
volume).
Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Surveyor's Office
Vault:
Bearing Trees of U.S. Surveys Corner Restoration Record
[original], vol. 1-9, ca.1858-present (9 volumes);
Section Corners and Witness Trees [Record], 1946-1949 (1
volume).