Inventorying Easements: Finding Documents and Mapping the Easement

1. Gunty Atkins & Shaun Scholer Wayne County/City of Richmond GIS Interlocal Inventorying Easements: Finding Documents and Mapping the Easement

2. Easement and Right-of-Way Easements are historic and well established interests in land. An easement is the right to use the land of another for a limited purpose. Right-of-Way is the physical land area upon which the facilities (transmission line, roadway, buildings, etc.) are located.

3. Why Do We Need to Collect Easements They are perpetual and not subject to termination Difficult to locate document Consolidate resource May not appear on the deed

4. Beneficiaries Public and Private Utility Company Land owner Abstractor Recorders Office Planning and Permit Office

5. Easement Types Subdivision Plat Maps Recorded Easements Building Conservation Land Conservation Easements

6. Subdivision Plat Easement Recorders Office Surveyors Office Richmond Engineering Office

7. Recorded Easements Plat Room (Auditors Office) Surveyors Office Richmond Engineering Office Richmond Sanitary Recorders Office

8. Building Conservation& Land Conservation Easements Search Local Recorders Office Indiana Landmarks Foundation USDA Local Land Trusts

9. What to do… What to do… From Easiest to Most Difficult Make Records Searchable Make Records Locatable Make Documents Viewable Draw Easement

10. Easement Index Records Recorders Office Recorders Database Grantor Index Books

11. Recorders Database

12. Grantor Index Books County Books City of Richmond Small Towns

13. Easement Map Layer Subdivision Plat Easement Documents

14. Subdivision Plat Document

15. Easement Document

16. Easement Map Layer

17. Web Based Easement Search

18. Questions Gunty Atkins & Shaun Scholer Wayne County/City of Richmond GIS Interlocal 765-973-9385 sscholer@co.wayne.in.us