I met Kurt Luebke from Montana over Labor Day weekend in the Black Hills of South Dakota for nearly four days of searching for old survey markers. The Black Hills has hundreds of old markers ranging from GLO brass caps, National Forest monuments, geodetic markers from various agencies, and homestead boundary markers. We camped whereever we ended when darkness came and then started out again at daybreak. One area we went was a landmark known as Surveyors Hill. More sites to follow...
http://www.penryfamily.com/surveying/surveyorshill.html
your posts are always a good read, thank you, jerry
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Surveyors Hill looks like a good place for a Bilby tower.
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:good: I also enjoy reading your posts. Always full of really neat stuff. Thanks.
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Looks like GPS Heaven out there.
Any ideas what the nails were used for?
It might have been named that way because of being able to survey(see) in all directions.
Quite possibly the square nails were in a wood hub used for a triangulation point many years ago. Just a guess. I have not come across any record of the hill even being a secondary point for the USC&GS or USGS. Maybe the GLO?
My guess is that this would have been a good spot for a turn station for the USGS topo work at the time.
Dearl you might be right on. The square nails would date from the era that USGS did their original mapping in the Black Hills.
You will probably not have much luck if it was just a temporary survey point when the USGS was doing topo work. I've never had any luck in my area finding notes, maps or such. The points with caps then I've had better luck but they did not describe the runs which would have the points associated with the monuments.
Surveyors tend to pick the most usable points though so I always get out the schoney before setting a new point on a hilltop or such. 99% of the time I will find other points that have already been set even if I have no record of them.
dp
Thanks for posting Jerry, I always enjoy your posts too.
Jerry,
I wish you wouldn't post so much... I never get anything out of them.
I just had to get away from all the rump-smootchin'.
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I hope you know I'm just kidding too!! I greatly enjoy your posts and look forward to the pictures and reading each and every one of them!
A great day to you!!
Carl
Very Interesting
Cheers
Derek
If you get over into T. 3 S., R. 4 E., you will run into my monuments that were set back in the late 60's.
Custer, So. Dak., is in the township that I resurveyed.
My resurvey consists of 24 plats.
Keith
Last time I was in Custer was 1965. Just visiting.
SJ