More county line issues

To the editor,
The Orange-Spotsy boundary line is not the only one where there are inaccurate or incomplete records. These exist along many county lines in Virginia and it is about time that the lines were established! When the 911 systems were created in Virginia many roads, lanes and byways were given names and located on a GIS map. This would have been a logical, intelligent and sensible time to establish the various country boundary lines, since each 911 system is set up by county. How did the ball get dropped? The failure to do this has caused some tragedies. For example, old-time residents in Orange can remember when a small boy drowned in a swimming pool while emergency vehicles from two counties were passing each other madly on the road because they could not find the pool location. A few years ago, when Benny May was found collapsed in his home on the Orange/Albemarle line off Burnley Road with his wallet and CDs gone, the emergency workers had a terrible time finding and extracting him, while no investigation was made as to the theft and possible attack.
I live in the dead zone in Barboursville where Greene, Orange and Albemarle County lines converge. Here, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors is a landowner of a large, wooded parcel which straddles across the three counties with unmarked lines.
Here, there is no police, sheriff or other responsibility for service because Albemarle says the land is in Orange jurisdiction and Orange passes the buck by saying Albemarle is the landowner. The situation is worsened because Greene and Albemarle are in one planning district and Orange is in another. Woe betide anybody who gets hurt in here! Meanwhile, it makes a great free zone for outdoor recreation, legal and otherwise.
A solution is not for the underappreciated Mrs. Kendall, as her sunset task, to research the metes and bounds descriptions which were often made before county lines were established, especially if the county lines still have never yet been surveyed. Further, Mr. Rolfe is mistaken as to the circuit court approving metes and bounds descriptions, surveys, or land records of any kind. The circuit court is simply the repository for documents. I learned the hard way that nobody, neither authority nor agency approves or keeps track of correct land descriptions when I filed a survey for a parcel which was different from the parcel which, by metes and bounds description, had been deeded to two sets of owners with the mistake (if that is what it was) perpetuated for over 50 years down both chains of title without any title searcher, lawyer, or owner picking up the competition between the two chains.
Mr. Johnson is correct. A subdivision in his district on Route 670 which straddles the Greene/Orange line managed to build 13 homes without permits in Orange. Many people with nefarious schemes have taken advantage of the lack of stewardship of the various counties who have failed to delineate and/or mark their territories.
Elizabeth Petofi
Barboursville