If the deed itself does not close the plot will not either. When entering the calls if all of the descriptions are complete Deed mapper will plot it exactly as written. In some deeds the last call is "following the meanders of the river to the beginning". This is represented by lm ; ; meanders to beginning end and Deedmapper will close the plot. However, most deeds particularly before 1800 are rather loose in their directions. Compass directions may easily be a couple of degrees off and the pole calls do not account for any change in elevation. [200poles going up and down a hill covers less area then 200 poles on flat land] Then there is always the errors of the surveyor, the clerk transcribing, and the difficulty of measuring how far that river really meanders. If you are concerned, try plotting the deeds of the neighbors and seeing if there is a error noticable in the deed. After having plotted over 250 plats I can tell you that very few actually close perfectly, a gap of 80p in a 500 acre plot is not much. Charlotte Cain

I presented my seminar on land records and the examples were a great hit with the audience. To all of you who so kindly shared your metes & bounds plots with me I wish to share the many Thank You's I received after the presentation. Thanks to all of you. Linda homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas MarionCoAR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ TulsaCoOK: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2