Metes and Bounds Description Detail

Detail

Description Type Source Acres Beginning Point
Shippensburg Borough Ordinance 129A shape ordinance stone on the present borough line along the Strasburg road

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 along Strasburg road N 70.5° W 448 ft. point
2 S 49° W 1860 ft. point on the line of the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railway Company
3 along the line of said Railway Company 2995 ft. stone on the present borough line
4 S 42.25° E 441 ft. point on the north side of road
5 along said road N 44° E 224 ft. point
6 S 38° E 123.5 ft. point
7 N 55.75° E 304 ft. point
8 S 32° E 651 ft. point
9 N 62° E 374 ft. point on the East side of Fayetteville Road
10 along said road S 31° E 294 ft. point
11 N 59.25° E 458 ft. point along stream
12 N 36.5° W 961 ft. stone on the present borough line
13 N 32° W 170 ft. present borough line
14 S 62° W 770 ft. point
15 S 32° E 89 ft. point
16 S 55.75° W 304 ft. stone
17 N 38° W 123.5 ft. stone
18 along road S 62° W 218.5 ft. stone
19 along road S 44° W 224 ft. stone
20 N 42.25° W 441 ft. stone
21 along S. Morris Street N 36.5° W 736 ft. point at the intersection of King and Morris Streets
22 N 62.5° W 558 ft. place of beginning

Change Measurement Units

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Distances:  Feet; Feet & inches; Rods; Rods & feet; Rods, feet, & inches; or Chains.

Event Links

Detail Type Description Successful? Date
View Annexation Shippensburg Borough Ordinance 129A yes* Dec 31, 1919