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04-13-2011, 01:12 PM
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Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
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Anybody Ever Seen this Sign Before?
Found this laying on the ground in a far corner of my yard that is thick with brush, trees, etc. What is it?
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"Sunshine Day Dream"
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04-13-2011, 01:26 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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superfund site, thats where the govt. marked the areas of high toxic material required for clean up
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04-13-2011, 01:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Are Eye
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a survey marker
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04-13-2011, 01:41 PM
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GrayBeards
Join Date: Jan 2011
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yes it means there is a point somewhere close by that was used in surveying a point that is stored in the usgs database in DC. Look around on the ground there will be a small triangle shaped metal survey setting that will point north.
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04-13-2011, 01:43 PM
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GrayBeards
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04-13-2011, 02:00 PM
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Always a Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: South Shore Long Island, NY
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I saw that once, but no evidence of associated material, guess people got pissed and chased surveyors off each time!
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04-13-2011, 02:51 PM
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The new World Geodetic System was called WGS 84. It is currently the reference system being used by the Global Positioning System |
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04-13-2011, 03:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
The new World Geodetic System was called WGS 84. It is currently the reference system being used by the Global Positioning System |
Thanks for that info. I'll be able to sleep well tonight. |
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04-13-2011, 05:30 PM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
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If you can find a USGS Topographical map there wil be a little black X with BM next to it in the location where the marker is. With a map and that marker to get yo close it should be cinch to find.
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04-13-2011, 06:21 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Already you violated the law by unearthing it...I'm telling!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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04-13-2011, 02:57 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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I bet there is a missile silo buried somewhere right near there!
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04-13-2011, 08:17 PM
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There is one near a spot I fish. It's from 1920 something. It's a round badge stuck to a rock. It says fines or prison for disturbing it.
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04-13-2011, 10:25 PM
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Next thing you know, you'll be tearing the warning tags off your mattresses.  |
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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04-14-2011, 07:06 AM
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GrayBeards
Join Date: Jan 2011
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I did that am I in trouble now? 
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Originally Posted by BigBo
Next thing you know, you'll be tearing the warning tags off your mattresses. |
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04-14-2011, 09:07 AM
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Registered User
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Location: Easton, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTPORTMAFIA
There is one near a spot I fish. It's from 1920 something. It's a round badge stuck to a rock. It says fines or prison for disturbing it.
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I saw that one last fall. There was a metal box right next to it with some geocaching stuff in it. |
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04-14-2011, 10:16 AM
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Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
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Location: Marshfield
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I'll look for a marker on the ground. That part of my yard is really grown in during the summer. I was cleaning litter when I came accross that sign. I live behind what used to be a school and is now an old age home and accross the street from that marker is a wetland conservation area.
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04-14-2011, 12:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fishbones
I saw that one last fall. There was a metal box right next to it with some geocaching stuff in it.
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Pretty sure its a different one. It's one of the very few spots that nobody fishes that I know of. |
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04-14-2011, 01:25 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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good info here...
Survey marker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bottom of page has websites that might allow you to use Google Earth to help locate yours...
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