New Arrowhead Hi-point?

[kayakbird]

Blunder?  Bus-man's Holiday?  Personnel exchange?
East coast fellow I met near Yuma this winter told me about a cache he found near the Medicine Wheel.  
Snooping around in that area because he did not divulge the name.

MEL
PW0560* NAD 83(1993) POSITION- 44 43 39.53217(N) 107 45 26.27614(W)   ADJUSTED  
 PW0560* NAVD 88 ORTHO HEIGHT -  3099.5   (meters)    10169.    (feet) VERTCON    

PW0560                          STATION RECOVERY (2003)
 PW0560
 PW0560'RECOVERY NOTE BY MN DEPT OF TRANSP 2003 (JWS)
 PW0560'RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.

Edited July 27, 2020 by kayakbird
to hi-light Minn DOT

[Bill93]

Someone undoubtedly got the abbreviation for Montana wrong, as it isn't far from that state, and it is common to check a little way into adjacent states.

[foxtrot_xray]

According to the contributor's list:

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MNDNR    MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES                                       
MNDT     MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION                                          
MNGS     MINNESOTA GEODETIC SURVEY             

 

So, maybe he was just helping out?

[DaveD]

Thanks for the sharp-eyed posting.  Since this mark is less than a km from Montana I'm sure it was just a typo when someone entered the recovery.  I've sent a note to one of my colleagues still at NGS to review and mark the appropriate correction.  The MN DoT surveyors are a great hyper-active bunch but I'm pretty sure they didn't recovery this one.

[kayakbird]

The Montana State line is 17779 Smoots due north - per Google Earth Pro. kayakbird

[DaveD]

Correction has been make.

[Z15]

I have recovered a few marks into Wisconsin when I was working at Michigan DOT.  Once was assigned to occupy this  BM along a railroad West if Pembine, Wis.  I had to get permission to cross private property to reach the mark.   Another time I was on a Station along US 141 Wausaukee Wis when a local property owner walked by and looked at my state truck and come over and asked me if I was aware I was lost?  Drew some attention sitting there for 6 hrs.

 

QM0023_MAGNETIC: N = NO MAGNETIC MATERIAL
 QM0023_STABILITY: B = PROBABLY HOLD POSITION/ELEVATION WELL
 QM0023_SATELLITE: THE SITE LOCATION WAS REPORTED AS SUITABLE FOR
 QM0023+SATELLITE: SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS - April 15, 1992
 QM0023
 QM0023  HISTORY     - Date     Condition        Report By
 QM0023  HISTORY     - 1934     MONUMENTED       CGS
 QM0023  HISTORY     - 19920415 GOOD             MIDT
 QM0023  HISTORY     - 20010331 MARK NOT FOUND   NGS
 QM0023  HISTORY     - 20051115 MARK NOT FOUND   WIDT
 QM0023

 

 QL0664  CBN         -  This is a Cooperative Base Network Control Station.
 QL0664  DESIGNATION -  WAUSAUKEE GPS
QL0664  HISTORY     - Date     Condition        Report By
 QL0664  HISTORY     - 1989     MONUMENTED       WIHD
 QL0664  HISTORY     - 19900719 GOOD
 QL0664  HISTORY     - 19971001 GOOD             WIHD
 QL0664  HISTORY     - 20010411 GOOD             MIDT
 QL0664  HISTORY     - 20040423 GOOD             GEOCAC
 QL0664  HISTORY     - 20051128 GOOD             WIDT
 QL0664  HISTORY     - 20080908 GOOD             WIDT
 QL0664  HISTORY     - 20140801 GOOD             WIDT
 QL0664  HISTORY     - 20150803 GOOD             WIDT

 

Edited August 5, 2020 by Z15

[Bill93]

Minnesota crew submitted quite a few GPS sessions on marks in northern Iowa as part of their very extensive height modernization. I found one mark that had two PIDs, one with data from each state"s agency: ON0828 AE2132

And they didn't agree by almost exactly 1 meter in one of the XYZ coordinates.

 

After I pestered NGS and the agencies for a while it got corrected. The incorrect redundant data sheet was deleted.

 

I learned from that exercise that PIDs are not really permanent, because the PID of the deleted data sheet got reassigned to a new point a long way from there. That left an incorrect cross reference in my recovery report for the good one.

 

Edited August 6, 2020 by Bill93

[foxtrot_xray]

On 8/6/2020 at 7:58 AM, Bill93 said:

because the PID of the deleted data sheet got reassigned to a new point a long way from there.

 

THAT really worries me, because I too sometimes leave references to PIDs in my descriptions - not to mention what happens to the entries in the reference box of some stations that point to others.