It was for a 1905 USGS bench mark, so perhaps one might see it a "suspicious" activity having spent the time to go out and recover it.
We are almost there. Frederic Bauchot's patent in 2013 (for IBM) has an RFID tag embedded in the cap. I believe that Berntsen got their patent a few...
Samuel Bonner's design of 1877 consisted of a cap threaded inside a cavity from which a weighted wire with spring was attached. The spring would hold...
That little ball marked "d" in the last image is a glass ball that was supposed to stay with the monument as it was screwed into the ground. Then if ...
Nelson Buck memorial
Nelson Buck imageI always thought he looked a little like Abe Lincoln.
Unless the survey was required or has a stated basis of "North", you could be quite a ways off trying to lay out a bearing from one point. Many surve...
Might be a future surveyor in that group because of this. I like to give the little kids different colors of flagging and most hold on top it like it...
I wrote a history of this event back in the early 1990's. There is a roadside park along Highway 89 for a memorial.40°01'02" 100°29'57"Here is an ea...
Richard - Much of the government surveys here were near worthless long term as far a monumentation goes. I work in an area where stones were placed i...
Most of the early designs appear to be original concepts. Two of the earliest in the 1880's were by Theodore Wagner, the Surveyor General of Californ...
When I first started this project I would make frequent trips to the Engineering Library at the University of Nebraska where I would page through Unit...
Lincoln's Hat
Model 611. The tail is hand painted. I could still see enough of the original paint to redo it. I'll post more 'in-progress' photos later today. O...
Metes and Bounds description for the entire exterior and another for the "Except".
Generally speaking, in Nebraska the county roads are typically 66' in width and the landowner is taxed to the section line, or for the 33' width on hi...
