The Getting Started Guide is intended as the starting point for all other guides found within the Deed Mapper section.
Getting Started
First you will want to create a list of calls from your legal description. The legal description used in this example is as follows: “Those parts of the Northwest fractional quarter and the Southwest fractional quarter of Section 11, Township 31 North Range 11 East of the third principal meridian in Kankakee County, Illinois, bounded and described as follows: commencing at the Northwest corner of said northwest fractional quarter, and running; Thence North 88 degrees 58 minutes 00 seconds East, along the North line of said Northwest fractional quarter, 1319.85 feet to the Northeast corner of said Northwest fractional quarter; Thence South 01 degrees 31 minutes 07 seconds East, along the East line of the last said Northwest fractional quarter, 1791.16 feet to the point of beginning; Thence South 88 degrees 58 minutes 00 seconds West, parallel with said North line, 1020.20 feet to the Southeast corner of parcel of land conveyed by warranty deed No. 200117930 recorded September 11, 2001; Thence South 86 degrees 38 minutes 54 seconds West, along the South line of said conveyance, 213.83 feet to the East line of the Wais-ke-shaw reservation in said township and range, said East line being also the West line of said Northwest fractional quarter; Thence South 01 degrees 39 minutes 45 seconds East, along said East line, 846.37 feet; Thence South 01 degree 24 minutes 02 seconds East, along said East line here being also the West line of the Southwest fractional quarter of said Section 11, 1133.95 feet to the center of Illinois Route 102; Thence South 54 degrees 17 minutes 40 seconds East, along said center, 454.47 feet; Thence South 56 degrees 46 minutes 57 seconds East along said center 853.00 feet; Thence North 01 degrees 07 minutes 38 seconds West along the West line of a survey as said West line has been occupied, made by W.H. Mathewson, May 28, 1862, 1851.27 feet; *Thence South 89 degrees, 31 minutes 30 seconds East 157.71 to the Southeast corner of said Northwest fractional quarter and;*Thence North 01 degrees 31 minutes 07 seconds West along said East line of the Northwest fractional quarter 893.84 feet to the point of beginning.” You will need to go through each line of the legal description to understand what you are reading: where is your starting point, where is your place of beginning, are there exceptions, are there multiple keeps? With the example legal description used in this guide, the list of calls created are as follows:Navigating to the Deed Mapper
Finding the Starting Point
What is the Starting Point? The starting point is the point at which the calls in the legal land description start, but it may not be where the parcel itself starts.Refer to the Legal Land Description for the property with which you are working and enter the location in the search bar located above the map in CamoAg. For our example, we will be using Kankakee County, IL
The STR will be highlighted in yellow, to free up space on your screen click the X to collapse the filter options
Select either Point on Map or Latitude Longitude
- Lat/Long: If using Latitude/Longitude, select that option from the dropdown and enter in the coordinates
- Point on Map: This option is best used with the Section,Township, Range search. Click on the map to place your starting point. In the example used in this guide, we need to look at the paragraph “Those parts of the Northwest fractional quarter and the Southwest fractional quarter of Section 11, Township 31 North Range 11 East of the third principal meridian in Kankakee County, Illinois, bounded and described as follows: commencing at the Northwest corner of said northwest fractional quarter, and running; Here we will get the Section, Township and Range as well as the starting point which is in the Northwest corner of section 11, Township 31 North, Range 11 East.
Set the Point of Beginning
What is the Point of Beginning? This is the point at which the parcel actually starts being drawn.
Adding Calls
Click on the Line or Curve tab depending on the type of call you are making.
Note: For our example we will be using a line
You will notice the point of beginning for the parcel is noted with an orange marker in your list of calls
Multiple Parcels or Keeps in Legal Description
If you have multiple parcels or keeps that make up a legal description, add the first parcel using the deed mapper, then select the deed mapper again to add the second parcel.