County surveyor explains ownership plats Following the publication of a story in last week's Express concerning surveys of plats recorded in the Uintah County Recorder's Nelson Marshall of Uintah and Lola Uintah County explained that the recorded ownership plats are the best County Surveyor Nelson Marshall pointed out that the ownership plats in the courthouse should not be used as the only data to determine exact land The ownership plats should be complemented with the property abstract and accepted surveyor's or field The County Recorder's ownership plats are some of the best in the stated but they should not be used independently to establish survey Marshall paid high respect to Anderson for her accurate and efficient office containing ownership He said the plats are no more accurate than the surveys and some of them need to be checked out by a search of the abstract and a surveyor's plat or field