Sunset Nature Preserve
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26 Acres That part of the Northeast Quarter (NE¼) of Section 11, Township 112 North, Range 17 West, Goodhue County, Minnesota, lying south and easterly of the Township Road, EXCEPTION the south 1460 feet thereof and EXCEPTING that part described as follows: Commencing at the southeast corner of said NE¼; thence north 00 degrees 10 minutes 13 seconds east (assumed bearing) along the east line thereof a distance of 2159.23 feet; thence north 89 degrees 49 minutes 47 seconds west, a distance of 1018.23 feet to the point of beginning and the southerly right of way line of a Railroad; thence south 59 degrees 32 minutes 30 seconds west along said southerly right of way line a distance of 350.00 feet to a point of tangential curve to the left, radius of 96.07 feet; thence along said curve, central angle of 83 degrees a distance of 139.16 feet to the point of tangency; thence south 23 degrees 27 minutes 30 seconds east along tangent and the centerline of a Township Road a distance of 196.0 feet; thence south 09 degrees 02 minutes 30 seconds west along said centerline a distance of 221.73 feet; thence north 59 degrees 32 minutes 30 seconds east a distance of 610.28 feet; thence north 20 degrees 27 minutes 30 seconds west a distance of 450.0 feet to the point of beginning.

Also part of the Northeast Quarter (NE¼) of Section 11, Township 112 North, Range 17 West, described as follows: Beginning on the north line at the intersection of the southerly right of way of Township Road; thence westerly along north line to the intersection of the south line of Cannon River; thence southwesterly along southerly side of River 300 feet; thence east parallel to north line of NE¼ to the southerly right of way of Township Road; thence northeasterly on the southerly right of way of Township Road to beginning.

3 Acres That part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 2, Township 112 North, Range 17 West, Goodhue County, Minnesota, lying south and east of the Cannon River and lying north and west of the former right of way of the Minnesota Central Railroad Company (said right of way now owned by Goodhue County), EXCEPT that part of Section 2, Township 112 North, Range 17 West, described as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 1, Township 112 North, Range 17 West; running thence due South approximately 1091 feet to the railroad right of way; thence due West to the Cannon River; thence northerly along the Cannon River to a point due west of the point of beginning; thence East to the point of beginning.  ALSO EXCEPT, all that part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 2, Township 112 North, Range 17 West, lying south and east of the Township Road.

 

Location Latitude Longitude Altitude
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B 44º 31.712' N 92º 48.714' W 764
C 44º 31.710' N 92º 48.652' W 799
D      
E 44º 31.511' N 92º 48.960' W 801
F 44º 31.531' N 92º 48.949' W 790
G      
H 44º 31.645' N 92º 48.853' W 751
I 44º 31.680' N 92º 48.771' W 751
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