I am currently licensed in IN, IL, OH, MI, and KY.
Thinking about adding MO.
Just thinking out loud at this point.
Besides spending some time here: http://pr.mo.gov/professionallandsurveyors-application-forms.asp
What other tips/suggestions do you all have for me?
Thanks, Brad
Buy Dr. Elgin's book and forget everything you know about other PLSS states. MO is different.
I do have quite a bit of study material should you choose to accept.
> Buy Dr. Elgin's book and forget everything you know about other PLSS states. MO is different.
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> I do have quite a bit of study material should you choose to accept.
Thank you and Thank you, I will take you up on that if/when I move further down that road.
We missed you at the Effingham BeerLegger last year at the Firefly.
Missouri is a whole other place, as they are likely to say in those parts.
One thing you will find is that a ridiculously high percentage of those licensed in Missouri are members of MSPS. They are very serious about that sort of thing. On the other hand, they are about evenly split between those who feel surveys should be filed publicly and those who feel they should not.
Hope some Missouri guys chip in soon.
I have been warned
Thanks HC & STL & here are some other warnings I have found:
"Being licensed in a number of western states might even be a detriment to passing the Missouri State-Specific Exam. Here’s an example: Establishing the north quarter corner of, say, a Section 3: Midpoint in most USPLSS states. Proportioned according to the GLO plat in Missouri, considering the next adjacent existent corners, be they Closing or Standard Corners. In some fashion, that situation will be posed on the Missouri State-Specific Exam. Those who apply the rule of most other states will get the problem wrong, and appropriately so, for Missouri. The State-Specific Exam Works."
"The Board believes the Missouri State-Specific Exam works as intended. To get licensed in Missouri, albeit you are licensed in other states and you know the “BLM Manual” by heart (or the survey law and resurvey rules of another state by heart), what matters is do you know Missouri statutes, rules, regulations, practice and our state’s GLO instructions and GLO practices. The Board recommends study and practice relative to our State prior to getting licensed in Missouri."
I have been warned
The north quarter corner of Section 3 is proportioned in PLSS states. Even on Standard Parallels. Pushed cardinal to intersect the senior Line on a standard line. Not always a midpoint.
