ELBA, Minn. – A land-owner near Whitewater State Park didn’t like a drone hovering around his property and threatened to shoot it out of the sky. A Winona County deputy arrived and ascertained that the drone was being flown by a land surveyor with a legitimate contract. That mediated the confrontation.
Elba tensions
Pioneer surveyors didn’t get all Winona County property lines quite right. Their unfortunate legacy has been mashed-up and overlapping property lines arond Elba. The thinking back then was that nobody would much care or even notice the surveyingg messiness in remote corners of the county. Wrong. Countless lawsuits over the years have left persistent ambiguities around Elba and unhappy neighbors.