Thought I would post an update about the KAPS/TAPS joint effort on reference monumenting the stone monuments marking the state line.
First thing yesterday, I returned a call from the property owner on the Kentucky side of a state line monument. He remembered the 1990 work that took place in just recovering the monuments and was fine with me accessing his property for the GPS work we have been doing to tie the locations down.
So I got some gear together and headed over to the site:
Here is the location on Google Maps
It is a little over two hours drive one way for me. Once I arrived, I stopped by the owners shop building, introduced myself and chatted with him for a little while. I explained what I would be doing.
The property owner is very knowledgeable about the state line monuments in general. It was a pleasant chat. He was showing me the location and easiest access on his GIS used for his farm (pretty fancy).
In the 1990's, KAPS/TAPS went and found the monuments and made rough location sketches (cloth tape and compass or similar). In the mid 2000s, reference marks were set with angles and distances turned into the monuments. In the late 2000s up to present, GPS observations have been made on the reference monuments.
At this particular monument, another surveyor had set the reference monuments and turned the angles and distances. So all I needed to do was recover the reference monuments, GPS them, and take some photos for the datasheet being developed.
Here are photos I took of the area:
This is the east face of the monument.
North Face
South Face
West Face
Occupying a reference monument looking east.
Occupation looking south. White area in right corner a pipe that is flooding a field to the west.
Field to the west.
Occupying second reference monument.
After fours hours observation time (I took a trip over to the Reelfoot Lake area while waiting), I packed everything up and headed back home. I arrived at the office just in time to drop the gear off and hit the road again to go to the chapter meeting - all told about a 14 hour day.
I was able to get a colleague to agree to do the GPS work on the last marker in that area. If I recall correctly, it is about 10 miles east of the one I just did. Another colleague is going to re-do one a few miles south of his house (the original data was lost by the folks that did it). I still need to do one more about an hour east of me. At that point, I think that will wrap up all but three in the western end of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Excellent. I've got 4 I'm working on 11, 13, 14 and 15. If I don't hurry up and finish I suspect Jim Riney will come comandeer his reference monuments in my closet. Making money keeps getting in the way of the fun stuff.
Awesome!
I could not make out the infinitesimal divot in the top of the stone 0.04' from the true corner.
Here is a link to the full size photo. I circled the divot that was drilled in slightly offset of the scribed X that was roughly centered on the monument.
[sarcasm]As I was not doing a boundary survey, I did not spend the time to resolve exactly where I was going to drill and set a brass disk with a center point punched.[/sarcasm]
When I stated there were three left on the west end of the line, I was speaking of the overall project. So I was counting the ones you have to do. I did not realize that you had four.
The offer to help finish them up still stands. I have a couple of KAPS members in Trigg County and one in Calloway County that have stated they would assist in wrapping up those four.
Attaboy, Jon
Nice work.
I've occupied the western three, but not 15. I haven't set any of the reference monuments. I hope to get this thing wound up before the weather heats up.
> Excellent. I've got 4 I'm working on 11, 13, 14 and 15. If I don't hurry up and finish I suspect Jim Riney will come comandeer his reference monuments in my closet. Making money keeps getting in the way of the fun stuff.
Let me know if I can help out.
