Survey markers, also called survey marks, survey monuments, or geodetic marks, are objects placed to mark key survey points on the Earth's surface. They...
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Corner Survey Marker is a heritage-listed survey marker in the locality of Cameron Corner, Shire of Bulloo, Queensland, Australia. The survey marker is at...
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Henry Washington Survey Marker is a survey marker in San Bernardino National Forest in San Bernardino County, California. The marker served as the earliest...
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a broad arrow – below the horizontal line. A benchmark is a type of survey marker. The term is generally applied to any item used to mark a point as an...
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pen Paintball marker, or paintball gun, an air gun Survey marker, an object placed to mark a point 4253 Märker, a main belt asteroid Marker, Norway, a municipality...
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the...
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The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is a United States federal agency based in Washington, D.C. that defines and manages a national coordinate system, providing...
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Cadastre (redirect from Cadastral Survey)
One such cadastre was done in AD 77 in Campania, a surviving stone marker of the survey reads "The Emperor Vespasian, in the eighth year of his tribunician...
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along the expedition's route. The broad arrow mark was also used on survey markers. It can still be seen on some Australian military property. The broad...
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Poeppel Corner Survey Marker is a heritage-listed survey marker at Poeppel Corner on the border corner of Queensland, South Australia and Northern Territory...
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Tribrach (instrument) (category Surveying instruments)
survey instrument to be repeatedly placed in the same position over a surveying marker point with sub-millimetre precision, by loosening and re-tightening...
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Territory. The marker was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. This marker was one of the few surviving markers from this survey that is...
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Kaibab National Forest. The site contains one of the few remaining survey markers used by the expedition of John Wesley Powell in 1872 It is accessible...
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Meades Ranch Triangulation Station (category Surveying and geodesy markers)
Triangulation Station is a survey marker in Osborne County in the state of Kansas in the Midwestern United States. The marker was initially placed in 1891...
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"standard" survey error of the time, the originally surveyed location of the "Four Corners" point, along with the corresponding survey marker, was unintentionally...
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Mason–Dixon line (category Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania)
of Pennsylvania (1855) Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-349, "Mason-Dixon Line Marker, Zora, Adams County, PA", 1 photo, 1 data page, supplemental...
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Plumb bob (category Surveying instruments)
the instrument exactly over a fixed survey marker or to transcribe positions onto the ground for placing a marker. The plumb in plumb bob derives from...
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Louisiana Purchase State Park (redirect from Louisiana Purchase Survey Marker)
development practices that include draining such areas. On the survey point is a 6-foot (1.8 m) marker erected in 1926 by the L'Anguille Chapter, Daughters of...
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Milestone (redirect from Mile marker)
A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway line, canal or boundary. They can indicate the distance to towns, cities, and...
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equipment; digging implements for finding survey markers buried over time; hammers for placements of markers in various surfaces and structures; and portable...
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Benchmarking (hobby) (category Surveying and geodesy markers)
benchmarks (also known as survey markers or geodetic control points). The term "benchmark" is used only to refer to survey markers that designate a certain...
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de la Harpe. In 1818 the rock was used as a survey marker, and formed the starting point for land surveys in the region south of the river. The Little...
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A boundary marker, border marker, boundary stone, or border stone is a robust physical marker that identifies the start of a land boundary or the change...
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Ellicott’s Rock is a survey marker placed in 1811 by Andrew Ellicott as part of his survey to resolve the boundary dispute between the U.S. states of...
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Civil engineering (section Surveying)
when possible; "lay-out" or "setting-out": placing reference points and markers that will guide the construction of new structures such as roads or buildings;...
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Geodetic control network (redirect from Control survey)
velocities. Cadastre Map ED50 Geodetic datum GRS80 History of geodesy Survey marker Triangulation station Trigonometry Rear Adm. John D. Bossler. "Standards...
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Resort, a ski area in the Cascade Range of Oregon Willamette Stone, survey marker in Oregon Willamette Cattle Company, a company formed in Oregon in 1837...
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candidates Premature atrial contractions Primary airport control station, a survey marker established in the vicinity of an airport Personal access control system...
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8 Mile Corner (category Boundary markers)
8 Mile Corner is a survey marker in the Cimarron National Grassland that marks the tri-point (a place where three states meet) of Kansas, Colorado, and...
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Seven Ranges Terminus (category Surveying of the United States)
Seven Ranges Terminus is a stone surveying marker near Magnolia, Ohio that marks the completion of the first step in opening the lands northwest of the...
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