@paul-in-pa The rules of the survey would be addressed in the special instructions and I'm guessing they were told to follow the original constructio...
Strike one from the New Mexico BLM office. I suppose I will follow up with some of the suggestions posted here. ...the BLM, New Mexico State Office,...
I'm the round man with the square deal. If I tell you tomorrow's Easter, you'd better dye your eggs tonight!" Any survey for $688! Gotto gotto get to ...
Again, anyone who was been here or on the old RPLS.com knows what I meant by cookbook and a certain poster who coined the term. Based on the early res...
@rankin_file Thanks. I assume you realized I was quoting the extreme precision surveyor from the most difficult and challenging state to survey in wh...
It's groundhog day. 5 years later and I am working another unrecorded internet land sales GIS map a half mile west of the survey in the original post....
I recently did a survey where an adjoiner owned a portion of the parent tract and was hostile to the purchaser of the remainder. She refused access to...
To quote Farmer's... I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two. As the age of internet progresses, the stuff you can find online grows e...
It looks like they determined there was a vacancy between the Smith Survey and the H&TC Survey. The corrective work was done by M.R. Estes and the...
Sylvan Sanders' materials went to the Texas General Land Office with the Twichell Collection. The maps have been scanned and are available on their ma...
@bill93 That's MCS73. I think there is a new datum proposed. 😆
Thanks, all. I felt pretty good on the first part. Not so much on the second. I should have spent more time on the 1855 Manual of Instructions, I spen...
Well, after only 8 years from the OP, I am sitting for the Kansas Exam tomorrow.?ÿ Not sure if we have enough artificial satellites orbiting mars to ...
+/-163 feet N70?øW by my calcs. Considering it all, amazingly close. In the heart of Apacheria. A few miles south of Victorio's last battle in Texas a...
Yes, the coordinates published on the datasheets are in varas. We succesfully located 2 rock mounds and a 4"x4" cedar hub (disturbed). The hub is ly...
@jamesf1 Glad you will get some utility out of it. We are headed back up the trail in the morning with a bigger cup of ambition and some fresh brewed ...
Well that's a great article. I was wondering what to call it and NAD makes sense with the updates being NAD27 and NAD83. I need to recheck my distanc...
@bill-c In my area, Diablo, Diablo Cairn and Eagle are mentioned. As are several railroad stations and water tanks that no longer exist. I looked at N...
I just noticed that the coordinates appear to be in varas. In Texas 1 vara = 33-1/3 inches.
