Clay County Recorder - Real Estate - Plats & Corners On-line

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Search, view, magnify and print Plats and Corner Certificates on-line.

See instructions below for the general operation of "Plats & Corners". Once inside, if you are having problems using "Plats & Corners", choose "Help" from the menu for detailed information on minimum requirements, etc. (see bottom of this page for "Help" button location).

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Plats

A “Plat” is a map of a tract of land subdivided into lots, with streets, alleys, etc. drawn to scale showing dimensions. Usually an owner of a tract of land chooses to plat the land so lots can be sold. Instead of a metes and bounds description, a lot, block and name of a plat are used to describe the property. For more information about subdividing land, contact the city planner of the city where the land is located or the Clay County Planning and Zoning Department, if outside of city limits within Clay County.

See Minnesota Statute 505 Plats; Coordinates; Surveys

In most cases, in Clay County, the word “Addition” is used when subdividing land within city limits. The word “Subdivision” is used when subdividing land outside of city limits.

Plats can be searched by plat name, city/township, section, document number or year.

Directions and Tips for Using Plats On-line

Click on the "Plats & Corners" button above; then double click on the application "Plats".

Tips for Using Plats

When searching for Plats by name, enter the first few letters of the plat name followed by an asterisk (*). Ex: BRI* (all the plat names starting with "BRI" will be listed). Double click on the plat you are looking for and it will be displayed.

To zoom in and print a specific area of a plat:

Click on the "Pan" hand icon to turn off pan mode.
Click & drag to make a rectangular box that will fit on your paper.
Once your box is made, right click on the box and choose "Magnify".
On your new magnify window, click on "Edit" & "Keep Aspect Ratio".
On your magnify window, click "File" & "Print".

If the box you made is too large, the magnify window will be too large to fit on your paper. You will need to practice to determine what size box will work best with your hardware.

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Corners

A “Certificate of Location of Government Corner,” also known as a “Corner Certificate”, is a document developed by a licensed land surveyor to mark a corner within a section of land. A section is a parcel of land generally comprised of one square mile or 640 acres. Thirty six sections make up a township. When a survey or plat is made, proper recording of Corner Certificates is required, consisting of a minimum of two or more appropriate controlling government corner locations.

Corner Certificates can be researched by document number, recording date, section number, township number, range number or a combination of these fields.

See Minnesota Statute 381 Surveys, Section Corners, Township Landmarks.

Directions and Tips for Using Corners On-line

Click on the "Plats & Corners" button above; then double click on the application "Corners".

Tips for Using Corners

When searching for Corner Certificates, also search abutting sections or townships. For example, the SW corner of section 1 is also the SE corner of section 2, as shown in the diagram below.

Example of Abutting Sections

36	31	32	33	34	35	36	31
1	6	5	4	3	2	1	6
12	7	8	9	10	11	12	7
13	18	17	16	15	14	13	18
24	19	20	21	22	23	24	19
25	30	29	28	27	26	25	30
36	31	32	33	34	35	36	31
1	6	5	4	3	2	1	6

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Plats and Corners

Notes:

If you go into another Clay County on-line application ("Death Record Index On-line", "Marriage Record Index On-line", "Plats and Corner Certificates On-line") but continue to see the same application as you were using, "logout", close the "login" page, and then try again.
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