Is this a benchmark?

[+phillippio]

I found an item while caching that I think could be a benchmark. It had these markings.

 

U.S. General Land Survey

1930

192

 

1/4 s30

s31

Penalty $250 for removal

[+Kewaneh & Shark]

Those markings look like they would be found on a Public Land Survey System Section Corner. Most likely a Quarter Section Corner between Sections 30 & 31. The United States Government Land Office (GLO) set many of the section corners throughout the public lands states.

 

Keep on Caching!

- Kewaneh

[survey tech]

Thats right, if you look exactly half a mile either due east or due west, assuming you are in an undeveloped area, you will find others similarly marked, the northeast and northwest corners of section 31 in that particular township. These are cadastral markers, not geodetic markers, though very similar in appearance and markings, right down to the $250 fine.

[+phillippio]

Thank you.