In my area posts and mounds were from GLO surveys 1855-56. These where in the valley, grassland and wet meadow. I hope to find one some day but prob...

I've never found a GLO post. Can you read anything on it? How old?

I've seen some surveyors do a version of it. Sort of the combo fence line/deed staker. They'd calc up the stakeout boundary. Send a crew out (one t...

Can you go back more than to 2005? I have files back to 1999.

Ferron found a very few Mogo posts but many more mounds. I've never seen a Mogo corner and the most recent find I've read about is from 1898.A BLM gu...

You still have the north isn't north issue. At 2000 feet the new punch mark might not hit the DOT marker either.B-)

Right On!!

It's all fenced for a long time.If I were to re establish these obliterated corners I just wouldn't use one parcel. I'd try to fit as best as possibl...

I walked the fences taking a shot every 50 to 75 feet or at the oldest posts where I could find them. Then I input into a best fit line routine. So ...

Earth Centered Earth Fixed Simply Does Not ExistSo what does your GPS use to calculate vectors? When it calculates the length of a vector what's the ...

What each tract or survey has in common, regardless of the way you wish to look at it, are ECEF 3D coordinates. That's the common glue that binds it ...

Anybody with modern software and the education to understand projections, which should include all land surveyors, can handle this stuff with ease. I...

You're so clueless!