Metes and Bounds Description Detail

Detail

Description Type Source Acres Beginning Point
Mercersburg Borough Ordinance 90: Montgomery Township shape ordinance former corner of the Borough boundary

Map

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Courses and Distances

Note: This is an abstract, and not a transcription, of the description, which has been made to facilitate mapping that is not of surveying or engineering quality. Courses and distances have been converted to decimal degrees and feet, respectively, and some corrections may have been made. Users are cautioned to examine the original description.

Point Thence Course Distance To
1 N 78.1666666666667° E 20 ft. middle of the highway known as Route 75
2 by the middle of said road S 10.3333333333333° E 637 ft. point in the middle of said road
3 by lands of Wm. Smith Heirs S 89.2166666666667° W 1748 ft. stones
4 N 2.03333333333333° W 300 ft. white oak on the line of African Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
5 by said cemetery and lands now or formerly of John Bennett S 78.9666666666667° W 108 ft.
6 N 6.63333333333333° E 519.5 ft. iron pin in a locust stump
7 S 43° E 600 ft. point
8 following the old Borough line N 78.1666666666667° E 1292 ft. corner the place of beginning

Change Measurement Units

Courses:  Degrees; Degrees & minutes; or Degrees, minutes, & seconds.
Distances:  Feet; Feet & inches; Rods; Rods & feet; Rods, feet, & inches; or Chains.

Event Links

Detail Type Description Successful? Date
View Annexation Mercersburg Borough Ordinance 90 yes Aug 16, 1954