I have my doubts anyone will ever care about the data, but I submitted an OPUS Shared Solution on a point mostly for commemorative purposes. When I first found it in 2011, I got a small article published in the county newspaper, but wanted a commemoration surveyors might notice.
It was a US C&GS stone post set 1901 or before to check magnetic declination and let local surveyors calibrate their compasses by sights to landmarks.
https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/getDatasheet.jsp?PID=BBFS77&style=modern
I think they liked cemeteries because they were mostly free of magnetic influences - far from pipes and fences, and at that time metal coffins were rare.
Where's Cain? Or, did they raise Cain?
Raise Cain
Meaning
To be 'raising Cain' is to be causing trouble or creating an uproar.
There were a few mag stations within a couple hours drive from me that I'd like to look for. It's one of those "someday" projects that I never seem to get around to pursuing.
Holy Cow, post: 443936, member: 50 wrote: o be 'raising Cain' is to be causing trouble or creating an uproar.
No uproar - the residents didn't seem to mind my presence.
That end of the cemetery gets relatively little attention other than the mowing, as it mostly contains much older graves. Now and then I visit the stones marking a g-g-grandfather, his wife, and brother just over the hill from the setup.
I'd like to do more shared solutions around that county (this is the first in the data base) but nearly all the found bench marks are not GPS friendly due to trees or railroads.
In case anyone has been wondering, the source of the 93 in my login name is the alphabetical order county number there around the hometown. We used to have those numbers on the car license plates and on trips us kids would play the game of "how many county numbers can you see?"
Nebraska has/had a system akin to that. The county with the largest population was 1 and as population decreased the number grew larger.
Kansas used a two-letter identifier for each county. MI was Miami County and DG was Douglas County, for example.
93 in Iowa = Wayne County
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_County,_Iowa