E. G. Mansfield Corner Tie Book

This is currently filed in our Engineering Vault and was given to Deschutes County by E. G. Mansfield’s estate. Pages are indexed by Township/Range. It contains notes about PLSS corners found, set and referenced by Mansfield from his various surveys. We scanned this book into 26 separate files by Township and Range.

Ellithorpe G. “Al” Mansfield (1894 – 1981), Oregon PLS #10, moved to Redmond in 1928 and began working as a surveyor for the Bureau of Reclamation. In 1934 he went to work for the Central Oregon Irrigation District, retiring as District supervisor in 1965. He then went into fulltime private practice, forming the company Mansfield – Povey Land Surveyors with his grandson Randy Povey. Mansfield recorded over 400 surveys at our office between 1946 and 1980. A majority of his recorded surveys are in the Redmond area.

Like any other Miscellaneous Record, this information should be used as a research tool and not the final say in a corner’s location. Hopefully these notes will help direct a surveyor to filed surveys of Mansfield’s that will expound on what he found, set or proportioned. As with other old notes, the corner and reference ties in these documents may have been superseded or nullified by more recent surveys or evidence.

See the E. G. Mansfield Corner Tie Book at the Deschutes County Public Records Center Now