One of the crews called in this afternoon with some questions about a job. First thing I did was throw their points up on the screen and open Google Earth. Now I'm ready to talk...
As we discussed things I noticed a really big jog in a N-S section line at the quarter corner. I discussed a plan of action with the crew and hung up. The Google Earth pic on the screen started looking eerily familiar.
Suddenly I was transported back to 1972 ('73?) and remembered the area. The N-S section line was closed back then. We completed a chain+transit boundary around the section and had found an existing stone at the quarter corner. It was a big deal then...and even more so when we plotted the boundary and found the stone to be 20 or 30 feet off of a line between the N and S section corners...AND nowhere near a "split". But stones are stones and we held with it. A subdivision plat we produced not long after that was within a 1/4 mile of the stone's location. And the development exploded after that.
Fast forward to the present. I could plainly see the PI on the aerial at the 1/4 cor. There's 50' of paving on the N-S section line now. I had to dig up the corner refs and plats to see if that wacky location had been perpetuated. Apparently it has.
I don't remember when the road was put in, but our survey superseded our requirements to record corner locations. None of the CCRs reflected the original stone, but several were tied to our old subdivision.
I was happy to see the stone's location had apparently been perpetuated, even though its location never shows up on anything but a small note on the recorded plat. I guess we all have done our job. The area is dense residential suburban now with hardly anything left that was there 42 years ago.
Even though the stone is long gone, the corner is still pretty much where those fellas dropped the rock back in 1872 and we found it 100 years later. I love it when everything works like it should!
Saved one from 1865 last week. It's in the center of a county road intersection that will probably never be paved. There's a special thrill that only a land surveyor can understand that comes from finding one like that.
Speaking of the perpetuation of crooked things, there is a driveway that has a distinct jog of about 30 feet for roughly 150 feet for no apparent reason. A friend who was going to build a new house near the center of a 100-acre tract had me bale the hay on most of that tract immediately prior to getting started on the house construction. I had stored about 30 big bales along a fence line. Before I could get them moved to my own property he had several truck drivers hauling loads of road rock to construct his driveway. He told them to put the drive close to the fence line, jog around my bales, then move back close to the fence line again as they laid out about 1000 linear feet of driveway. That silly jog is still there after 28 years.
Lat. 37.514111
Long. -95.238384
That's a cool old bridge just to the northwest of that property, is it still in use?
Yes, but just barely. It serves very little purpose today for normal traffic. Until 1960 or so it carried U.S. Highway 59 traffic connecting Corpus Christi, TX with Canada. Now, there is almost no traffic. In fact, when a small bridge failed about a quarter mile south of that bridge, the County turned it into a low water crossing with no hard surface of any kind.
Haven't worked in your part of the state.
Closest is on the south side of Eldorado, in Butler County.
In 1999 I did a small cutout for a Optic Fiber Booster station just east of Strong City and a couple more further West.
