2019 Union County plat book available
A new Union County plat book has been published by the Union County Farm Bureau with Mapping Solutions.
The 2019 book is available for purchase for $35 at the Farm Bureau office at 104 W. Broad Street in Jonesboro.
Union County Farm Bureau members who are in good standing will receive a discounted rate for the new plat book.
Associate members can purchase the book for $25 and MM/PM/MS members can purchase the book for $20.
Premium wall maps also will be available for purchase.
The Union County Farm Bureau also plans to conduct a drawing to give away both a premium wall map and a SmartMap of Union County.
People can register for a chance to win one of the products at the Farm Bureau office.
The Union County plat book is a 60-page spiral-bound book which features standard landownership map pages showing townships and ranges of Union County.
The maps include property boundaries for all rural parcels, owner names and the number of acres owned.
Opposite the land ownership maps are new, enhanced LiDAR aerial view maps which have a 3D effect showing the actual topography of the land.
There also is a landowner index which is designed for easy cross referencing.
In the new edition, there is a current county government directory, a soils map, a watersheds map and a county road map with a road index.
The book also has municipality maps for Alto Pass, Anna, Cobden, Dongola, Jonesboro and Mill Creek.
Another new feature in the 2019 publication is an index of the initialed parcels for easy reference. Additionally, there is an explanation of the public land survey system. Mapping Solutions is the publisher.
Two digital versions of the Union County landowner maps also are available:
•SmartMap for a smart phone or tablet. A SmartMap allows you to view your location on the map and track real-time movement with the device GPS, you can measure distances and areas as well as add points of interest, photos, position and label names to the map and much more.
•eBook for a tablet, laptop or PC. This is a digital version of the plat book.
More about the digital maps can be found online by visiting mappingsolutionsGIS.com.
More information about the Union County plat book is available by contacting the Farm Bureau office by phone at 833-2125.