GLO Stamp interpretation

[kayakbird]

Hi all,

 

I'm scouting more MORC's. This is one of a very few that mention the underground stone and it doesn't seem quite right that the pipe cap was

replaced with a GLO since there is a 1/4 corner not far away. Also suspicious of the 1948 date.

 

What the heck do all the stamped letters stand for?

 

THE SURFACE MARK IS A

TH0683'U.S. PUBLIC LAND SURVEY DISK STAMPED R.W.T.N. S.S. T.N.R.W. S.S.

TH0683' ON THE TOP OF A 4-INCH IRON PIPE THAT PROJECTS 1.4 FEET

 

TH0683

 

Thanks, kayakbird

[Bill93]

It sounds to me like they used a GLO pipe cap with no field stamping added, but the casting had blanks to fill in something like

R____W T____N S___S____

meaning Range number west of principal meridian, township number north of baseline section number, and section number.

In the case of the corner of 4 sections they might stamp a number above and below each section line on the disk, and for a quarter corner the numbers of the adjacent sections.

 

It would be just a little unusual for another agency to be using GLO disks, but hey, if you've got one laying around ...

[AZcachemeister]

No comment except for the obvious:

Range West, Township North

Township North, Range West

 

S S would be Section, Section....meaningless without the actual numbers.

Or maybe not.

[AZcachemeister]

It sounds to me like they used a GLO pipe cap with no field stamping added, but the casting had blanks to fill in something like

R____W T____N S___S____

meaning Range number west of principal meridian, township number north of baseline section number, and section number.

In the case of the corner of 4 sections they might stamp a number above and below each section line on the disk, and for a quarter corner the numbers of the adjacent sections.

 

It would be just a little unusual for another agency to be using GLO disks, but hey, if you've got one laying around ...

 

I have never seen a GLO pipe cap with 'blanks' to be filled in. The pertinent data has always been hand-stamped.

Doesn't mean they don't exist...

[kayakbird]

It sounds to me like they used a GLO pipe cap with no field stamping added, but the casting had blanks to fill in something like

R____W T____N S___S____

meaning Range number west of principal meridian, township number north of baseline section number, and section number.

 

All,

 

Must have been a North Dakota crew(source of many jokes); our PM is way west of this location. MEL