Well, at least all the monuments were found. But if someone needs to reset one in the future from his survey drawing, I wouldn't expect it to be as ...

Anyone have a clue as to what in it could have degraded if it still nominally works?  

If this is a small amount of land being acquired, would a boundary line adjustment document work in your jurisdiction as opposed to writing all new de...

Denverite sounds like a mineral. The story was pretty good, at least compared to some of the stories about the four corner monument.

When I was doing OPUS Shares for GPSonBM, I pasted a table in the field book showing (slant - vertical) versus slant. It's a simple right triangle cal...

How deep do you think it might be? Unless it is very deep I would think a magnetic locator might find it. You would need to operate the locator such t...

My father in law filed an "Affidavit of Possession" when he signed the purchase contract for the farm in the 1960's. I never figured out what his reas...

In the sections near my wife's family lands in Iowa south of a "correction line" (equivalent to what was later named a standard parallel), the descrip...

Is Lot 1 the whole north tier, or if not what are the other pieces?

But the bullfrog knew where the center of the section was in that pond..  

If the ground isn't hard, I'd have the crew dig with a hand trowel to a reasonable depth and back fill around a monument. Wouldn't be 30" but could be...

A friend visited his ancestral roots in Norway near the Arctic Circle. There was a sign at the town limits saying it was illegal to exit on foot witho...

I fail to see why it makes any difference, due to the three people receiving both half interests of their parcel, and it sounds like each set of deeds...

I've heard the cone of protection ftom lightning extends 45 degrees down from the high target.

Although I wouldn't be worried about interference between power line frequency and its associated noise into the much higher frequency band of GNSS, t...

In the 1970/71 college year (possibly 71/72?) a couple of us would sneak unto a lab to play with an HP9100, a large table-top unit. It had the functio...

Most importst-metadata. Write down what you did so the next poor guy can follow and not have to guess.

On my old Trimble 4000 I hit the maximum temperature for the display one time, but I shaded the receiver and it came back. The session processed okay....