Australia names their corners

Reminds me. When I was dating my wife, while on a hike we came across a brass cap monument on a hilltop that was stamped with a woman's name, she asked why? I told her that we surveyors sometimes named our survey points after women in our lives'. She immediately wanted to know if I had named a point after her. I had to admit she had a wood hub and tack control point named after her on a construction job we had going at the time :). Back in the day when we kept track of the job by names and not point numbers. Most likely because we had to key the coordinate in by hand every time we wanted to use it or we had ray out sheets (remember those?) from those control points and it was easier to keep track of by name than point number. Jp

One of those corners should be named "RADU".....

Jp7191, post: 418361, member: 1617 wrote: surveyors sometimes named our survey points after women in our lives'.

Old triangulation stations were most often named for the land owner or the nearest town.

But some are quite fanciful, named for something they had noticed that day. I suppose some were named for women in the surveyors' lives, but I hadn't run into many.

The corner of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina is called "Ellicott's Rock". Actually the Chattooga River is the line between Georgia and South Carolina and the rock is on the South Carolina bank.
Andy

Jp7191, post: 418361, member: 1617 wrote: Back in the day when we kept track of the job by names and not point numbers.

In those pre-data-collector days just about every job we did started with a Point Steve and a Point Bob.

There is the MD-PA-DE tricorner:
Post Mark'd West

One of Mason-Dixon's more famous corners.

Bill93, post: 418534, member: 87 wrote: Old triangulation stations were most often named for the land owner or the nearest town.

But some are quite fanciful, named for something they had noticed that day. I suppose some were named for women in the surveyors' lives, but I hadn't run into many.

I have a client who preserved his under plexiglass as part of a patio.
PINE

Most boundary corners are named for the parcel, i.e.; NW corner of ....

Then there are names for points that are only near corners. "Found Conway's corner 2 feet east, and found Johnson's corner 1 foot west of the NW corner of ......"

Point Remouski/Fathers Point, IGLD85 and NAVD88 are based on adopted elevations on this point.

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Two come to mind... Stargazers Stone by Mason/Dixon that was used to fix the lat/long on the Mason Dixon Line.
I believe it is SW of Philadelphia. Set in 1760s
The other is the Ellicott Stone in Alabama that was a boundary monument for the 31st parallel. Set in 1799 by US-Spanish bounds.
Both still exist.

Robert Hill, post: 418797, member: 378 wrote: Stargazers Stone by Mason/Dixon that was used to fix the lat/long on the Mason Dixon Line.
I believe it is SW of Philadelphia. Set in 1760s

It is about 30 miles west of central Philadelphia, approximate coordinates N39 56 21.1 W075 43 56.8. It was the north reference for their observatory when finding latitude in that area. I doubt they determined an accurate longitude, as that was difficult and unnecessary to their purpose.