If this works...then here is a picture a an 1872, 1886, 1926 Township Corner in Utah getting "GPS'd"
Hmmmm...that seem TOO easy, hope it works.
Seems like someone is going to have to step and fetch to prove it wrong though. 🙂
Kris
Actually THAT'S EXACTLY what I'm trying to do (prove it wrong). I have a strong suspicion that the ORIGINAL Township Corner (1856) is about 300 feet south of there.
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Loyal
March 19th Surveyor Day
The Spudster watching the GPS receiver Collect data.
Bench Mark E-81 PID KO0310
Beautiful pictures!!
Loyal
oh oh
Loyal
According to some on here, it would not matter if the original is someplace else; the fence corner is it.
Keith
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It was dark by the time I got back to the Township Corner, and I had forgot to get a picture of the CAP before setting up. This one is using the Flash on the camera AND the headlights.
You may notice that the 191_ is over stamped 1926
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Loyal
Don't we have a great job?
Combining this great satellite technology with the research for the ancient deeds an maps.
I have no clue but suppose and hope all these old surveys and maps are well preserved and traceable as in our Cadastral system in Belgium. I did some research today and had to go back to the maps and sketches from 1906.
How is your research organized, can you do part of it online or do you have to travel to some kind of Cadastral or BLM office?
chr.
btw nice picture.
Christ
Some of it is on line, but MOST of it (in Utah) is a "go to the BLM Public Room" proposition (about 100 miles each way for me).
ALL of the County Records (in the County in question) are available at the County Seat (140 miles), but I am working FOR the County, so they usually just email me scans of what I need.
Loyal
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Loyal,
I don't remember setting that one?
Keith
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Your ol' buddy Ralph Gentry set that cap!
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Loyal
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ah ha, did he leave our empty whiskey bottle there? I thought I put a note in it and corked it.
Keith
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Maybe like this one?
Keith
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No old whiskey bottles left last week! The fence is relatively new (last 50 years or so), and LOTS of surveyors have visited it over the years (including ME about 25-30 years ago).
Loyal
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I'll keep my eyes peeled for one of THOSE!
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I dug that out of the ground in the backyard of the Custer, SD Post Office, back in the late 60's. It is in the Dept. of Interior Museum now.
Keith
Probably Tooele County. YUP not too many those 1855-56 corners were found even 15 years later by GLO Deputies. What do the notes say was set for a township corner. Most of the 55-56 corners were posts, unless you can find the mounds, not many posts been found. If you find the 1856 post and the scribing is visible I'm driving out there to look at it!
Finding old corner monuments reminds me of a 1/4 cor. monument that I found and also could see the two pits on each side. The stone was a small flat stone about an inch thick and about 6 inches around with a chiseled + on top. Nobody had ever seen that since the day it was set. I found it because it was close to record distance and we were retracing the mile. The sec. corner on one end of this mile was a shalestone of some sort, standing up above ground about 6 inches and about 4 inches square. It had visible notches and when we dug it up to set a pipe, it fell apart.
Some township corners in South Dakota were supposedly marked with a small medicine bottle, but did not find one.
Keith
Leon
Columbus L. Craig, 1856! He surveyed all or part of over a dozen Townships that year, and set wood post monuments in a mound of EARTH & stone (w/ pits). We have a few candidates, but nothing rock solid yet (we have ONLY been working on this for about 10 months). I am still assembling the passing (terrain) calls for the Craig (and later) surveys onto georeferenced aerial photography (1938, 1939, 1955, 1959, and 2006).
We found this EXACTLY where we hoped it would be (Garmin-”exactly”) the same day (160 chains [less 300'] North, and 40 chains East of the above Brass Cap.
We haven't excavated (or even touched) it yet, as we want more witnesses when we do.
Maybe it is...and maybe it's NOT.
Loyal
