I'm surprised this question hasn't received attention. I am no expert but will guess parallel to the east line.

I hope he didn't mind we used his gravestone as a reference to his survey stone. I think he would have been proud.

Norm reminded me of another interesting one I found. In the hometown cemetery there is a 1901 monument for compass calibration. Azimuths were given in...

It's hard to pick a favorite. A state line monument that my paint around it might have saved from a dozer? The Tri-station underground mark 27 inches...

I thought it was black widow spider silk that was in highest regard.

How much change in description/accessories are you finding when the record hasn't been updated. If the information on record was sufficient, it doesn...

For crosshairs, you could try taking a polyester sewing thread and unraveling one thin strand out of it. Not sure how smooth it would be but probably...

@bill93 it the HI & HT are not at the same height you are introducing error into the reduction equation. Can you explain in a little more detai...

Unless data is entered into the total station or data collector to the contrary, the software will assume the height of the instrument above it's mark...

Some years ago I bought a Brother laser printer, about the cheapest in the store. It does a good job. But I found two hacks on line that almost double...

It's important to distinguish between angle-only resections which were once prominent, versus angle and distance "resections" sometimes called free st...

miniature pocket tape measures ... only 6 feet long I've seen a few little advertising tapes, and all fail to meet the standards of accuracy of maj...

14.4 modems. I started out on a 2400 bps modem. I recall other people earlier using 300 bps phone couplers.

a USGS geodetic benchmark I hope you mean National Geodetic Survey (NGS) bench mark, as most of the USGS marks are not of sufficient quality to be ...

I've appreciated the flash drives loaded with the presentation materials that the Surveyors Historical Society has given out.

then slope easement(where there are no slopes) I think that is the key.

@dave-lindell I see now. This shows closing corners on both north and south lines. They would only have those if one of the lines was a standard p...

I don't see that being east of the principal meridian has any effect here. The standard corners were marked along a township line, and now we're subdi...