Deciphering Survey Stake Marking

[kmacht]

I was walking out by the back edge of our property this weekend and noticed that the adjacent empty lot had a whole bunch of wooden stakes with orange flags attached to them . It appears that a house is going to be built on the lot. I'm good with this as I have 6 acres and the new house is set way back in the woods behind my property and won't even be visible from my house. I was looking at the stakes they had set just out of curiosity and was wondering what the markings mean. Some are obvious as they state house corner or fill to x depth. The ones I am curious about are the ones marked EOT. They have some stakes that are marked 15' to EOT and then some marked just as EOT. Anyone know what EOT stands for? The only thing I found with a google search was Edge of Travel for roads. Based on where the markers are and where the house will sit it doesn't seem likely a road would be put there. The other curious thing is that the property is still listed for sale on the real-estate web sites. Would it make sense to go through the whole process of surveying the land and staking out for a house and driveway before the property is sold?

Keith

 

[Lassen Forge]

The RE sites sometimes leave them up both for pricing comps (to substantiate the asking prices, which may be well below the sales price) and to pad their site to make it look like "see all the homes on the market". There is a 3rd option - sometimes even tho a house is "sold" it has to meet contingencies to close, and if they're not met, the house goes back on the market.

As to the stakes - call a local surveyor and ask. Or even the county. It could be a reference point for the rest of the plans or for the guy leveling the land or... who knows? "Extent of Transition" for a slope seems reasonable, but it's likely some 3rd option that the surveyor and grader and whoever else have worked out... No harm in asking, just to satisfy your curiosity...

 

[garagelogician]

I went to school for surveying/civil tech and I've been in the industry for over 10 years now. I've never run into EOT. It wouldn't be conventional, but it could be end of tangent. Are the stakes marking out a curve of some sort?

 

[steveo1o9]

Not being able to see the stake layout it would be tough to determine the meaning, and as already stated that is not a standard label. It could be the edge of slope transition, as in the point that the proposed grading will tie back into the existing grading. The the 15' EOT would be an offset stake so when the EOT stake is removed during construction they still have a point of reference.

Could it be a sloppy written EOP, meaning edge of pavement? Would a driveway seem right in that location?

 

[kmacht]

Edge of Transition seems to make sense based on where the stakes are and where the house is going. The lot is on a slope and a lot of the other stakes have fill and dig depth notations on them. I looked up the realtor for the property and found it was the same one we used to sell our old house and buy the new one last year. Sent her an e-mail and she replied back that a builder owned the lot and has been trying to sell it but since the lot itself couldn't be sold he is building a spec raised ranch. At least that answers the question on what they are doing.

Keith

 

[buddyboy]

just a guess, but it might be edge of travel, letting equipment operators know to keep off.

 

[bpjr]

EOT is a survey term for "End of Trace"...underground utilities where signal drops off. This would not be found on typical topo or boundary surveys