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Floyd County, Iowa | I'm not a lawyer, but I always thought that the property line for property adjacent to a body of water goes to the water. I do know that (in Iowa, anyway) if you are kayaking or canoeing on water deemed "navigable", you can go anywhere on the water, but if you step on the shore, you are on someone's property, and guilty of trespassing (found that out many years ago on a canoe trip down the East Fork of the Des Moines River from Tuttle Lake to south of Armstrong, Iowa). Meaning that the shore that is exposed is part of the adjacent landowner's property. If two properties are divided by a river/stream, etc, the property line is in the middle of the stream bed. But the water is open to public use if it's navigable. | |
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adverse possession questions
