Notice on the datasheet that Meades Ranch is officially designated "Meades Ranch Reset". I am not sure when this "Reset" suffix was added to the name...
Mike - I always love seeing your original USGS stuff!
Meades Ranch is a triangulation station that is not connected to PLSS work, but rather it is the datum center point for the North American Datum of 19...
The original Meades Ranch in 1891 was a marble post that was replaced in 1922 with a flat top concrete pyramid shaped marker. People kept chipping of...
Backwards "4"Same guy on a township line further north.
ProbesI have used a lot of homemade probes that bent and caused a lot of frustration trying to get through hard soil. Nothing works like the probes f...
Backwards "N"The same guy on Jones's crew made backwards N's on other township corners that I have found from 1857. I think his name was William Moor...
It was about 3.5' deep. Get under the road crust and start probing. Amazing that these stones are still there 158 years later, but then again I neve...
I don't believe they are being marketed as property markers. I show this example as being one patented idea that exists for a survey marker. The pat...
I noticed the website stated the lower portion (socket) can be purchased in a ferrous material as well as plastic for detection with locating equipmen...
Woodward's Monument Patent of 1990This patented survey marker by Woodward in 1990 was a huge surprise to me when I actually saw the marker compared to...
The Monument Race: Harrison vs. BerntsenOver 40 years ago, John David Johnson of the Harrison Marker Company in Anoka, Minneosta, and Peter Berntsen o...
