Here is the township corner 6 miles to the west of the one I previously posted last week in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I didn't retie this one since I didn't have the Certified Land Corner Record from the person that previously retied it. I need to get to Deadwood on a weekday to access the courthouse records. These capped iron post monuments are pretty cool since they precede the iron posts set by the GLO by a decade.
The reason that USGS was in this area before the GLO was because USGS was commissioned to survey the exterior of the Black Hills National Forest Reserve. They also had many surveyors already in the area doing early topographic and leveling work. There is an area in the northern part of the forest around Deadwood and Lead known as the "Deadwood Exemption" that contains 35 sections that was not to be included in part of the forest reserve. USGS had to come up from the south from existing GLO monuments so they went ahead and established permanent monuments at section and quarter section corners (stones) and iron posts at township corners. Where they tied into existing GLO township stones or wood posts, they remonumented them with iron posts.
J. Penry, post: 329568, member: 321 wrote: Here is the township corner 6 miles to the west of the one I previously posted last week in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I didn't retie this one since I didn't have the Certified Land Corner Record from the person that previously retied it. I need to get to Deadwood on a weekday to access the courthouse records. These capped iron post monuments are pretty cool since they precede the iron posts set by the GLO by a decade.
The reason that USGS was in this area before the GLO was because USGS was commissioned to survey the exterior of the Black Hills National Forest Reserve. They also had many surveyors already in the area doing early topographic and leveling work. There is an area in the northern part of the forest around Deadwood and Lead known as the "Deadwood Exemption" that contains 35 sections that was not to be included in part of the forest reserve. USGS had to come up from the south from existing GLO monuments so they went ahead and established permanent monuments at section and quarter section corners (stones) and iron posts at township corners. Where they tied into existing GLO township stones or wood posts, they remonumented them with iron posts.
You know you had an old guy there, he just couldn't help notching the rim of the brass cap.
Probably did thousands of stones and "had" to do the caps also.
MightyMoe, post: 329589, member: 700 wrote: You know you had an old guy there, he just couldn't help notching the rim of the brass cap.
Probably did thousands of stones and "had" to do the caps also.
The caps on the USGS iron posts down here in Oklahoma are also notched per instructions.
