National Forest triangulation station

Love the name. STRUNK

Aren't there ordinarily TREES in a forest?

Don

> Aren't there ordinarily TREES in a forest?
>
> Don

On the ground, just to the right of the monument 😉

Beautiful.

Approximate location is: 41°50'20" 100°28'30"

Here is a USGS triangulation station (ARCHIE 1948) I found in Wyoming last year with a signal still in good condition.

John - Thanks so much for the pictures! The area of my station has cattle, so I am sure they rubbed against it until it came down. At some of our 1890's tri stations I have found many bent nails in the ground scattered around. Around some of the 1930's stations I have found nuts and bolts.

not necessarily.

from Black's 8th edition:
forest, n Hist. A tract of land, not necessarily wooded, reserved to the king or a grantee for hunting deer and other game.

Here is the oldest station I have found:

BETHEL 1839 (PID=JU3319)

It is a "cone", originally occupied by the first director of the coast survey, Hassler. Before I recovered it, it was last occupied in 1880. We were doing a bluebook survey in the Philadelphia area, in the days prior to HARN/CORS. I needed this 1st order triangulation station for control. So, we set a point nearby, and then traversed over. It was down about 3 feet or so in a yard. It worked just fine (considering it was triangulation) with newer NSRS stations we recovered in eastern PA.

To occupy it, we estimated the center of the ceramic cone.

An interesting side note: I called the MD NGS advisor at the time to inquire about if there was any special mark inside. He basically flipped out, telling me I had no right to dig up a historic object without an NGS person there, blah blah blah. I later found out he was angry because he had looked for it and never found it.

I see that others have been looking at it since.
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=ju3319

Thanks, Bill. I had wondered how to link to a specific PID in a URL.