Amazing Survey Markers Around the World

With Survey Earth in a Day just around the corner again, knowing where your local markers are will come in handy when deciding where to submit a point from. Aside from our growing collection of Survey Marker Photos (photos tagged 'marker' inside the community), occasionally we will share marker photos on our Facebook Page which surveyors around the world respond to with, of course, their own marker photos. Take a look at this post for example and the comments which followed.

Neil Onoya
from New Westminster, BC Canada

Bill Etzkorn
Key West Florida

Michael Harris

Kendall Blanchard
US Navy marker of NAS during WWII

Matthew J Kanzlemar

Stewart Danforth
northern Alberta, Canada, only one I ever found with an error

Cindy Holland

Jeff Black
Just an old rock

Adam Mueller
Yosemite

Derek Christie
The continental divide...border between BC and Alberta in Canada. The water all flows either west or east along the border there's a blurb on a sign that talks about how they used horse drawn wagons to carry the concrete to make the monuments to make them back in the early 1900s

The post limits prevent me from adding more so I will continue in the comments below.

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⚡Survenator⌁ January 25, 2018 at 6:57pm
- Derek Christie
- Here's one on a wooden deck outlook. By Nordegg, Alberta.
- Joseph Jankauskas
- Property corner of a city block in downtown San Antonio
- Kotaro Matsuzaki
- A control point in Hongkong.
- Marvin Dominguez
- Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Ste Forshaw
- Don't see many of these OSBM's any more. Lime Street railway station, Liverpool UK
- Nate Viano
- Reset monument at Natural Bridge, VA. Original monument was set by George Washington in 1750
- Harry Miller
- Hoover dam
- Mickey Ames
- Meridian and base line monument Michigan
- Paco Rodregis
- North Carolina and South Carolina line. Monument stands in place of blazed longleaf tree in in 1735
- Ron Matthews
- Made in England, planted in America
- Richard A. Willis
- Klingmans Dome in N.C. highest on the east coast.
- Bryan Bergesen
- Mine is also from Natural Bridge, VA
- Scott Smillie
- Oklahoma Colorado border

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