State statutes require marking the original plat with a note of vacation. Sadly, it often wasn't done. It's a good practice, note the vacation and the...

A cemetery does show up to the east on an older quad, on the other side of the RR at about the same northing as the grave shown on the GLO plat. That'...

I'd also look at older quads if they are available. Sometimes those old 1905 or even older ones have interesting info on them.

Yes, exactly. The pipe is confusing, but there it is. If it was set for the original ROW, then everything is all wrong since the 1970's. However, ...

That's an interesting historical notation on the GLO plat. GLO plats are notoriously stylistic in nature. Pinning down the grave on the line between L...

The advertisements suggest that it's home-grown equipment.

The 980's are apparently an update to the 12s with better cell modems? We can't really use them that way cause so many of the areas we end up in are...

I've got a rep that's going to stop by to show me the units. I'm not in a big hurry to purchase any surveying equipment, but if a price is right I mig...

We don't have a network, the only thing available for me is Trimble's ProPoint technology. However, testing by my office got less than ideal results. ...

I'm seeing similar results. Newer GPS units are freakishly accurate.

Back in my early days, I sat on centerline for everything all the time. We built highways, railroads, dams, powerlines; all of it was centerline focus...

I'll pass on centerline as a survey control monument. Boundary control for sure.

I've never seen one placed on centerline, is it possible, I suppose anything's possible.

By highway control, I mean control set for, property location, mapping, design, construction, ect. (I'm inferring the OP meant this). Even on a divide...

DUH!!! The original survey was done in 1881, a local surveyor and rancher ended up owning the SE1/4 of the section. He was busy from 1882 until the ...

I'm guessing that the stone was set by a moonlighting GLO surveyor long ago. The fence in question shows up on the quad sheet which is circ 1965. It c...

That's on the Bitterroot, deep in the hood!

I hadn't heard of them before. We do have a local ammo manufacturer, and a gun manufacturer. When I grow up I want to work in the gun factory.