What are survey markers?
Survey markers are installed for many reasons, the most common being to help identify where property (ownership) boundaries are. Other good uses are: when buildings are going to be erected all in a circle over a few years, serving as a center reference point, or marking crests of hills, or marking points beyond which flood water is unlikely to rise and flow past. Nowadays concrete posts about 6×6 by a few feet long are commonly buried in the ground, the end extending, for survey markers. Not all have metal disks on the top. In my neighborhood, (iron) pipes were pounded into the ground, like lightning rods, as survey markers. Long ago, existing natural objects were used as survey markers, for example the property line extends “from the oak tree near the intersection of Main and Broad Streets 100 feet east to a point five feet from the end of the stone wall.” The preceding terminology was referred to as “metes and bounds.” Man made concrete, metal, etc. survey markers were used to achiev
