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Greasy Creek: Description of Range G-3

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Greasy Creek Range G-3

Length: 1949.8 feet (1948.8 feet?)
Bearing: N 53°20' E mag. (1939)

In S 1/2 SE 1/4 Sec. 15, T-7-S, R-5-W, LaFayette Co., Mississippi. (Approximately at limit of Sardis Reservoir conservation pool.) (All witness trees removed.)

Monument G-3-R Elevation 100.00 assumed (1939).
On old fence row in edge of cultivated field near field road, in SW 1/4 SE 1/4 Sec. 15.
14 inch water oak (blazed) S 45°15' E 3 feet
6 inch white oak (blazed) S 2(8?)°30' W 25 feet
6 inch water oak (blazed) S 50° W 11 feet
Up 3 feet in 40 feet from floodplain, 300 feet from west creek channel.


Monument G-3-L Elevation 100.1 (scaled from plotted 1939 section).
In pasture on second bottom, in SE 1/4 SE 1/4 Sec. 15.
6 inch persimmon (blazed) N 6(8?)° E 5 feet
24 inch sweet gum (blazed) N 10(or 16?)° W 147 feet
28 inch twin gum (blazed) N 4(?)° W 140 feet
Up 4 feet in 230 feet from floodplain.

Sketch of Range G-3.

Sketch of Range G-3.

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