Any surveyors here?

Kinda stumped here?
So I was trying to find the corners of my lot (about 100ac) from my survey. Can the coordinates on the survey be used to find the corners or are those not coordinates. The reason i ask is because when i input what should be a corner i end up in the ocean somewhere far away??? Anyways I suspect the survey may be useless for finding property lines without a known marker but wanted to see if others have had experience or success? My property is cornered by two un opened road allowances and it shows at least one stake so i guess I need to find that?? I was hoping to be able to do it all on mapping programs but I suspect not now. Anyways thanks for any help,

Never find them unless fence post marker. Metal detector is your best bet otherwise call up a surveyor for a relocate. Not cheap now days

Norfolk County uses an interactive map that allows you to see the approx. boundary lines of properties. I used it to find the old fence line and it was pretty accurate.

The surveyor will need to tie in to a known existing benchmark (there will be a steel bar in the ground). Where I live,
The nearest one was about 2km south of my property, in dense bush. They quoted me 12 k to have a general location survey done! No thanks. I'll just go by the line of the cedar rail snake fence that's been there since the 1870s.

Try going to google earth. You'll see that the cursor indicates the coordinate position. Pull up imagery for your property and more the cursor until you get a match. Works well for my place.

I have found utilizing a GPS and map software to be fairly accurate in identifying property lines especially when wanting in my case to hunt small isolated parcels of crown land. That and in conjunction with google earth has helped a lot.

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Try going to google earth. You'll see that the cursor indicates the coordinate position. Pull up imagery for your property and more the cursor until you get a match. Works well for my place.

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To add to this, if you can draw out the property lines in Google earth, you can save points as a .kmz (?) File And download it to Garmin handheld units using Basecamp. I used this method quite a bit for offroad motorcycle routes that mapping was not available for, although it's been a while.

https://www2.geowarehouse.ca/
Might be worth a shot for accurate coordinates that you can then GPS/metal detector.
Depending on your topography you can also keep your eyes peeled for rock piles indicating corners or old blaze marks.

Pay the $40 for the IHunter app unless your having a property line dispute. It is extremely accurate. We where able to determine lot lines down to a few feet on our place. I’ve also found it very accurate on the borders of public and private land.

I have used my GIS maps for Leeds and Grenville (zoomed in and wrote down co-ord of Lat/Long {8 figure grid reference}) and used just my cell phone and metal detector which was pretty accurately took me to within 5 ft of the rear fence line of property. I got 3 ticks on me in the 20 minutes so I retreated.

So it worked to find the fence line, which is completely fallen over and buried in brush, but it is there. I am just waiting for freezing weather to pull up the fence lines and then use the metal detector to locate the pins. SO it gets you close enough.

I called our local surveyor and asked how much to locate the 2 rear pins....only....yikes.... $1500-$2000. No thanks, I would be willing pay $750 to $1000, as I think that would be fair, as they have to travel only 12KM to my location, time, tools and GPS equipment. but 1500 to 2000 grand estimate? That's the great thing about a free market..I choose if I want tot pay the market price or not.

IHunter will get you close. I've used it on a few of my bars and it's generally pretty close.

If you can acquire a metal detector you might be able to find the bar. Usually bars that are in high visibility areas are buried under a few inches of ground. In the bush they are likely exposed a few inches