I found a section corner – with pictures this time
A couple of weeks ago I posted on the other site my story about finding a section corner. Didn’t have a way to do pictures at that time, but I’m going to try it with pictures this time.
At any rate, I was in Indiana visiting my daughter and one morning met up with the Boone County Surveyor and went out to help find a section corner. As with some of Mr. Penry’s escapades, these guys don’t do it half way. When I arrived with Mr. Swift the crew was already waiting for us with their trailer full of stuff, a back hoe, and a dump truck.
So after cutting a 5′ square in the blacktop, the hoe starts digging and the first thing we find was a piece of rebar that had gone to the surface of the road and a piece of railroad track that had been set by the County Surveyor about 50 years ago.
But since that was not the stone that had been set in the 1800’s, we keep on digging and the next thing we uncover right at the edge of the hole is a piece of wood that is set vertical.
Since that was unexpected and very curious, we kept on digging and soon found the top of a stone that with a little brushing revealed further evidence.
We keep on digging to expose more of the stone so that we can measure it and compare it to the record dimensions.
Now this isn’t the original corner because the original corner was a post set in the early 1800’s. But sometime before the War of Northern Aggression the County Surveyor went around replacing the posts with stones.
All-in-all a fun morning. But a couple of observations. If I tore up roads like that in Virginia, VDOT would have my hide. But also, here I am, just an old country M&B surveyor and I go out and find a section corner first try. Y’all PLSS types make it sound like it’s such a big deal. Seems awful simple to me. 🙂
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