Two miles from the missing stone, as featured in a different thread, we encountered the missing bar and all references. I was there in 1992. Found a 5/8" iron bar at a section corner at that time. Two references to bridge guard rail posts, one to a stop sign post and one to a steel post by a box culvert end. Note distance to another corner one mile to the east.
Now, all references are gone. Steel post is missing. Different stop sign post that must have been moved a bit from the old location. Entire guard rail assembly has been replaced in a slightly different location. Using distance from monument one mile away we find nothing at that distance for a 30-foot reach.
Time to punt. Start shooting a nearby bridge and one culvert in hopes of working backwards from 1969 highway project plans. This is why I do not lock myself into fixed prices. What should have taken under ten minutes of field work will turn into several hours of total effort.
If you had state plane coordinates on the 1992 job would you use them?
You sure you're in the same area? Funny that many references would disappear.That is over 20 years ago though.
An added problem in this area is that in 1969 the DOT found or set every corner monument along the centerline of an existing roadway, moved the alignment of the new roadway, then tore out the old road and monuments but did not reset new corner monuments. Also, nearly all reference ties were to objects removed in order to build the new road. The bar I found in 1992 would not have been the one from 1969. Some anonymous surveyor set it. Why it is missing today is the big question. It falls in a low area of a wide grassy area of right-of-way where the 1969 alignment curved from the section line to put a bridge perpendicular to a creek.