Interesting cemetery marker

http://www.nsps.us.com/resource/resmgr/PR_FrankLenik/Final_Point_Article.docx

Interesting idea.

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AJF

I provide instruction on using various NGS (and others) tools for doing control research. I call it "desktop recon." In Data Explorer one example I use is a NGS NAVD88 leveled bench mark along the California Coast (PID KT2196). The "to reach" description calls to a cemetery and a specific headstone. I drill down to street view then show these.

Another surveying-related cemetery item: It was common practice more than a century ago for the Coast & Geodetic Survey to place markers for local surveyors to use when checking their compasses. Cemeteries were a great choice if they had a long view to some good sighting point, because the marker could be a long way from magnetic materials like fences and piping. That might be less so nowadays with the use of metal coffins.

I did an OPUS Share on this one from about 1901/02, more as a commemorative to remind people the historic item was there, than expecting anyone to use the data.

https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/getDatasheet.jsp?PID=BBFS77&style=modern

https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/getimage?imgType=close-up&pid=BBFS77&ts=17241155629

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https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/getimage?imgType=horizon&pid=BBFS77&ts=17241155629

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As a side note, I've set many of my control points in and around Churches and Cemeteries.

This (or something similar) is done when creating a "memorial stone" for those who are cremated or bodies cannot be found or recovered. They drill a hole in the stone and place some or all of the ashes inside if available and seal it with these caps which resemble survey markers. You can choose a larger stone for a couple or even larger for a family of 3 or 4, each with their own hole and cap added as they pass away. My recently deceased nephew has a much larger stone placed at a very scenic spot on the bank of a creek within a cemetery in Broken Arrow, OK where his parents will be with him and their ashes added to the memorial stone as they pass away. Very interesting idea and I suppose one could make a marker that more closely resembled a survey marker if so desired.?ÿ

No dimple on the disk, so we don't know exactly where he lies.

https://www.nsps.us.com/page/FinalPoint is a fine brass cap that I've used on my mentor's grave.?ÿ ?ÿ