Working at a National Park property in New York and finding bronze disk set in rock outcrop marked "National Park Service". It appears to be a control point rather than a boundary mark. The site manager has older surveys of the property but no information concerning more recent survey work.
Does anyone know if the National Park Service maintains a central archive of survey projects done by or for the agency?
Thanks and regards,
Mike
Hi Mike,
I'm local to your area. If the NPS site you're working for is something related to the Roosevelt Estate on the same side of the street as the old Drive-In, it may be worth reaching out to Scenic Hudson for info.
I know that years ago Scenic Hudson was looking for boundary work around the drive-in, and the job requirements were to NPS standards including the setting of NPS monuments.
As for a depository of information, I'm sorry, I have no idea either other than what you have already been able to acquire.
Take care and good luck,
Kevin
My primary background is with Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. They have their own records and as far as I know they are not elsewhere in some central repository.
Biggest problem is that every time they change staff people in the lands section knowledge gets lost.
NPS
> Does anyone know if the National Park Service maintains a central archive of survey projects done by or for the agency?
try the Denver Service Center
Jim
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The island that I do most of my work on is mostly NPS.
They have no records available to the public.
There are disks and concrete monuments in a few places so they must have done some surveying many years ago but may or may not have lost all records.
There are encroachments on their property everywhere.
A few years ago a Park official called me to ask if I had a good source for survey markers. He said the markers he found on-line were all very expensive. I asked who would set them. He said they would have to hire a surveyor to show the park rangers where to put then. I tried to educate him...
Any time federal lands are involved, the BLM is a good place to check.
Just a quick search turns up the following, but they may have more.
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/results/default.aspx?searchCriteria=type=survey|st=NY|cty=|styp=14
As I stated above, the Denver service center would be the closest thing to a map depository for NPS as they handle all construction etc.
try http://www.nps.gov/dsc/
File a Freedom Of Information Act request for their boundary information. If they say they don't have any information, they can't spring a survey on you down the road to dispute your survey. The rub is that they can charge you for research and copy costs.
Thanks for the link James!