>"Since a survey must be recorded and it must be reviewed before being recorded" It is possible, to the chagrin of the county employees, for a stat...

I don't pay much attention to predictions of northern lights any more because in the 1990's I saw the show of a lifetime. In eastern Iowa about 42.15 ...

More exactly, the number is 34.4 mm = 0.113 ft, not 0.1 ft. If you use a non Leica prism and tell the instrument it is a similar Leica, the difference...

I saw it listed on the Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa web site for $100. Not sure it is currently available, but you need to try there if you haven...

I'm late to this party, but I'll offer this little writeup that I did a while back, trying to understand prisms.

I thought I had heard the locator company was responsible for getting the paint within 18 inches of the utility. Not so? Why are people required to ca...

So your handles added to the chain would make exactly 3 poles?

I have a reproduction of the 1875 Andreas Atlas of Iowa. It gets down to section level detail, and indeed shows a lot of towns that are merely memori...

Annual bump.

Yeah, I did something like that a couple years ago. My brother gave me a gardener's knife, which is a cross between a trowel and knife. I whacked at a...

An obituary can be found by searching: site:eastcentraliowanews.com Dale Beeks It won't let me link the article.

And Dave Karoly. If he has been here he has been scarce.