"1874 Clarkston City & Farming Surveys, Utah"

EARLY CLARKSTON SURVEYS, MAPS AND LAND CLAIMS

1). 1864 – The initial 1864 "Clarkston City and Farming Survey" made by Cache County Surveyor James H. Martineau on July 22, 1864 with some later additions followed by listing of names of those receiving early land claims.

[**** still to come from the forward from the Cache County Recorder’s Office

Consisting of a Map of Clarkston City and Farming Areas.
Followed by five pages of names of those receiving land claims via the Church.

After these pages the remainder of the maps and information is picked up as shown below.]

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2). 1874 – A revised "CLARKSTON Plats A, B. City and Plats A and B Farms, surveyed July 22, 1864
and Oct. 1874 by J. H. Martineau - Twn [Township] 14N Range 2 W."

The above revision was made in October of 1874 after the Federal Government had surveyed the area into townships and sections. Therefore this plat shows the old pre-survey lines with the new government survey lines incorporated as well as some section numbers that can be confusing unless it is all studied closely. The major change is noted for "Clarkston City" now comprised of three blocks from the initial Plat "A" (blocks #3, #4 & #9) together with thirteen new blocks from Plat "B" on the west. The northeast point of the town had been moved west two blocks with the six abandoned city blocks turned into farming parcels. Instead of making a new survey plat they modified and changed the initial survey by attempting to erase the old city block numbers and division but there can be seen faint markings of the older designations.

3). Post 1877 - Federal Government Survey of Township 14 North Range 2 West of the Salt Lake Meridian made from the 1875 Survey of A. J. Stewart, Sr., and field notes examined and approved May 4, 1877.

A printed note on map stated: "The above Map of Township No. 14 North of Range No. 2 West, Salt Lake Meridian Utah Territory is strictly conformable to the field notes of the survey thereof on file in this office, which have been examined and approved . . . . May 4^th, 1877."

The governmental survey lines and section numbers are clearly marked. Each section was one mile square and contained 640 acres and subdivided into four parts (each quarter section of 160 acres).

Depicted on the map were the cultivated field areas, meadows, roads, springs, creeks (by name Clarkston Creek, Birch Creek, Myer Creek and others as "Spring Branch") and two houses outside the town limits and the location of the "Graveyard," position of the "Field Fence" and the course of the main "Water ditch." Most of the thirty six sections in the 14N R2W Township are shown. The two houses outside the town limits were, first, " Martin Harris’ House," in section #15 in the wye created by the "Road from Clarkston to Malad" and the "old Road to Weston;" second, the "John K. Loosli’s House," in section #34 in the cultivated field area south of town (shown on the map but not in the view presented here. It would be just below the "u" in the "Cultivated Field." ) The fine meadowland was extensive east and southeast of town.

Johannes H. Dahle’s land north of Clarkston was in Section 15 in the western half of the SE quarter section where a "Spring Branch" flowed eastward into Clarkston Creek or a short distance directly west of the location of "Martin Harris ‘House." This Dahle land was downstream about half a mile from the point where the primary "Water Ditch" took the water from the Clarkston Creek near the junction with Birch Creek. Both the course of this "Water Ditch" and the Clarkston Creek can be traced across the Dahle land.

 

4). Map of Township 14N Range 2W and plats of land after being legally obtained by purchase or Homestead Act as shown on the Cache County Township Plats (survey maps and names of plat owners).

Taken from Cache County Township Plat Maps –

Features listed on map Town of Clarkston, Clarkston Creek, roads from Clarkston to Malad, road over mountains, county road, Newton Canal, streets, springs, old road to Weston, county road from Weston to Clarkston, canyon roads, spring branches, Birch Creek, road to Hay Lane."

Below is a copy of the first page (of three pages) listing the plat number assigned the land holder, this "Plat No." on the far left is platted on the above survey map for Twp 14N Range 2W by a drawn parcel of land (in red pencil and red number): i.e., Johannes Dahle Plat No. 10 references to the 80 acres in Section #15; and Plat No. 11 assigned to Samuel Stewart for 160 acres of land also in Section #15.

Notes:

Plat No. 2 - Henry M. Hansen on Cache County Township Plat but Henry M. Harmon on G.L.O. listing.
Plat No. 4 Freeborn Miller - on the Cache County Township Plat but name as "Freelove" on the G.L.O. records.
Plat No. 10 the "Jus. H. Dakle" [sic Dahle] is clearly shown on the G.L.O. records for the C.E. #2028 entry to be Johannes H. Dahle.

A typed transcript of the above (page one) of the name listing of the Cache County Township Plat map:

Key - C.E. = Cash Entry H. = Homestead

Plat No. Entry No. Description Section Name Date of Entry Patent Received

1 C.E. 2630 S½ NW¼ Lots 3 &4 4 Richard Costley Nov. 19, 1883 May 3, 1887

2 H. 1976 Lots 1,2,3 & 4 5 Henry M. Hansen June 6, 1882 Mar. 12, 1883

3 C.E. 2322 NE¼ 8 Milton D. Hammond June 14, 1881 Oct. 18, 1882

4 " 1964 NW¼ 8 Freeborn Miller Dec. 21, 1878 Nov. 19, 1892

5 H. 1852 S½ NE¼ NE¼ 17 Also SW¼SE¼ 8 Loren E. Bassett Apr. 12, 1882 Dec. 2, 1882

6 " 5683 S½ SW¼ 4 N½ NW¼ 9 Alpheus A. Harmon May 14, 1887 [blank]

7 " 3255 W½ SE¼&E½SW¼ 9 Edwin Bassett July 15, 1885 Dec. 21, 1886

8 C.E. 1848 N½ SE¼SE¼SE¼ and NE¼ SW¼ 8 Loren Bassett May 16, 1878 May 23, 1879

9 " 2496 SE¼SE¼ 11 and NE¼NW¼ 14 Caroline P. Larsen Sept. 12, 1882 Feb. 23, 1885

10 " 2028 W½SE¼ 15 Jus. H. Dahle Apr. 7, 1879 May 31, 1880

11 H. 2312 SW¼ 15 Samuel Stewart Mar. 19, 1883 July 14, 1884

12 " 2230 NE¼ 22 Thomas Godfrey Jan. 11, 1883 Mar. 24, 1887

13 " 2260 W½ NW¼ NW½ SW¼ 23 and NE¼ SE¼ 22 William Sparks Feb. 8, 1883 June 10, 1884

14 C.E. 2216 NE ¼ NE ¼ 27 NW ¼ NW ¼ 26 " "

SW ¼ SW ¼ 23 " "

SE ¼ SE ¼ 22 David Buttars Nov. 6, 1880 June 19, 1882

[Plats #15, #16 and #17 were "University" lands wherein the proceeds of the sale of these parcels
went to the Territory of Utah to foster higher education via the Land Grant Colleges.]

A few more plats from pages two and three:

20 H. 2469 NE¼ 26 John P. Malmberg June 21, 1883 June 14, 1884

28 C.E. 2157 SW¼ S½ NW¼ 26 SE¼ & S½NE¼ 27 " "
and N½ NE¼ 34 Milton D. Hammond, Probate Judge In Trust for
and N½ N¼ 35 Clarkston [town site] Apr. 10, 1880 Nov. 29, 1881

29 A.C. 579 * NE¼ 35 Ole A. Jensen June 26, 1880 July 31, 1881

36 H. 4375 NW¼ 24 John H. Dahle Aug. 8, 1890 Nov. 9, 1891

42 H. 4858 SW¼ 13 John E. Dahle Dec. 19, 1892 [blank] 1895

* State Grant-Agri. College Act of July 2, 1862