1855 ManualHere is a paragraph I found in the 1855 Manual in regard to Govt Lot numbering. Does anyone have an image of "Diagram A" or "Diagram B" fr...

1855 ManualCharles, thanks for bringing these pages to my attention. Very interesting!

Here are my calculations where the corners will be placed based upon proportion of the GLO distances. My measurements are shown as "M". I'd apprecia...

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Excellent work!

If I found this in Nebraska, my first guess would be a corner on a former Indian Reservation or Military Reserve.

More confusing is the remaining portion on the last part of a closing section. Even many licensed land surveyors can't get this right!

When possible I'll do an OPUS, but I usually don't have the equipment when I am out randomly looking for these old points.

If you can't find a Quarter Corner at the approximate midway and on line location, begin looking at 2640' from either direction from the Section Corne...

I have found well over one hundred marked GLO stones from the 1850's. Most of the surevyors I know go into the field assuming they could possibly not...

This will help explain it.

You need to be careful with the older USGS brass caps on iron posts. Their early directive was to place the bench marks two per township and perferab...

I remember when I started doing eBay, I don't think PayPal even existed yet. You could get payment any way you could, check, money order, even cash. ...

I remember dad was on the verge of completely cancelling a long-planned family vacation from Nebraska to Wisconsin in 1978 when gas rose up to 80-cent...