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Golf Outing w/ IPLSA Southwest Chapter 2025
Past Meetings
End of Summer Membership Meeting - August 27th, 2025
Some Riparian Boundary Surveys and Litigation I’ve Seen– Dr. Richard L. Elgin, PS, PE
August 27th, 2025Â at the James W. Rennick Riverfront Park, Washington, MO.
This meeting has been approved for 1.5 PDU’s by APEPLSPLA and is on the list of Pre-Approved Activities.
6:00 – 6:30 PM – St. Louis Chapter Business Meeting, Scholarship Fundraiser Tickets, while enjoying BBQ along the Missouri River by BFA, Inc.
6:30-7:30 PM – Presentation by Dr. Dick Elgin who will be discussing riparian boundaries and litigation examples. Outline here.
Summer Membership Meeting - June 18th, 2025
Our June 18th Membership meeting will be held at B. Halls 2 – The Event Space of the Family Grill.
3752 Monticello Plaza Drive, O’Fallon, MO 63304.
We will be in the private room and attendees may order dinner and drinks from the regular menu.
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
The presenter will be Matt Winkler & John Schaeffer, on behalf of Arch City Title, St. Louis Title, Benchmark Title and Security Title. The PDF outline for the evening’s presentation is HERE. The will be discussing title research related to surveys and the title research industry looking ahead, it is sure to be an informative and interesting evening. This will also be a great opportunity for surveyors from multiple counties, in MO & IL to meet the title company representatives.
Summer Membership Meeting - June 18th, 2025
Our June 18th Membership meeting will be held at B. Halls 2 – The Event Space of the Family Grill.
3752 Monticello Plaza Drive, O’Fallon, MO 63304.
We will be in the private room and attendees may order dinner and drinks from the regular menu.
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
The presenter will be Matt Winkler & John Schaeffer, on behalf of Arch City Title, St. Louis Title, Benchmark Title and Security Title. The PDF outline for the evening’s presentation is HERE. The will be discussing title research related to surveys and the title research industry looking ahead, it is sure to be an informative and interesting evening. This will also be a great opportunity for surveyors from multiple counties, in MO & IL to meet the title company representatives.
Spring Membership Meeting - March 26th 2025
Outline for MSPSSTL – 2025 Spring Membership Meeting
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: Office of TWM, Inc. 3701 S Lindbergh Blvd Suite 100, St. Louis, MO 63127
6:00 – 6:30 PM – Business Meeting, Non-Profit organization status, Scholarship Foundation, website updates, Ongoing St. Louis City/County limits original stones located and updated database and calculations by companies on website.
6:30 – 7:00 PM – New Survey Technician program, certified by the DOL and administrated by the StL Construction Forum. St. Louis Community College’s involvement, and a description of survey courses offered, career advancement and tuition paid for by St. Louis County Workforce Development.
Presentation to membership and open discussion with Tom McGovern from St. Louis County Community College, Tom Finan & Diana Wilhold from StL Construction Forum will present.
7:00 – 7:30 PM – AI in Surveying Presentation. Daily routines with AI, short-cutting work-flows. Walk-through Microsoft Office apps with AI assistance. Thoughtful prompting for precise outputs. Surveyor’s perspectives on AI questioning, input and liability during day-to-day use.
Demonstration showcasing useful AI platforms that can create detailed presentations and deliverables for projects.
Demonstration showcasing detailed prompting to create a Python app that allows coordinate data entry and calculates results in a user created input/output form or file.
Winter Membership Meeting / Surveyor's Roundtable - Dec. 11th, 2024
The Winter Membership Meeting / Holiday Survey Party will be held on December 11th at the offices of Clayton Engineering – 2268 Welsch Industrial Ct., St. Louis, MO 63146.
6-8pm. We have requested 1.5 PDUs for attendance of this meeting.
There will be a Hot Dog & Bratwurst Bar catered by Steve’s Hot Dogs
We will be presenting the family of Richard J. Barr with his Final Point, commissioned by NSPS.
We will be announcing our 2024-2025 St. Louis Chapter MSPS Scholarship recipient!
And the main discussion of the evening will be the surviving stones from the 1876 St. Louis City Charter, according to a survey by Julius Pitzman & Re-Survey by Thomas Featherson followed by a surveyor’s roundtable.
The full meeting outline can be found here.
Click Here for the 1.5 PDU Certificate
Golf Outing w/ IPLSA Southwest Chapter 2024
Summer/Fall Membership Meeting - August 21st, 2024
James W. Rennick Riverfront Park, Washington, MO.
6:30 – 7 PM – St. Louis Chapter Business Meeting, Scholarship Fundraiser Tickets and presentation about a new survey credit program by Midwest Geospatial Academy, while enjoying BBQ along the Missouri River by BFA, Inc.
7-8 PM – Presentation by Judge Ike Lamke of a court case that resulted in a decision about the location of the North-South section line between Section 4 and Section 5, Township 43 N., Range 2 W of the 5th PM.
Click here for Meeting Outline
Click here for all of the Case Files & Judge Ike Lamke Introduction
2024 Surveyors Cup Golf Tournament
Click here for Board Approved 1.5 PDU Certificate
Summer Membership Meeting - July 17th, 2024
The Summer Membership Meeting will be a presentation by County Planning and GIS Officials from our region to discuss their offices and procedures.
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at 201 N. 2nd Street, St. Charles, MO 63301
Click Here for Board Approved 1.5 PDU Certificate
Spring Membership Meeting - March 27th 2024
Seiler Instruments – 3433 Tree Court Industrial Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63122
6:30pm- 8pm
The Spring Membership Meeting will include a presentation about the St. Louis Chapter 2024 Scholarships available for SIUE, State Tech & Optional other programs with presentations about that. Surveyors in Training and Associate members are strongly encouraged to attend!
The main presentation will discussion AI implementation in the Surveying Profession: Rapidly evolving software integrations, benefits and downsides, Surveyor’s responsibilities and awareness and preparedness of the unknown.
MSPS-STL March 2024 Meeting Program
Copilot ChatGPT4 DALL-E 3 Presentaion
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September 14, 1803.
Helpless Sailors.
In Marietta, two of the crew are so drunk that Lewis must assist them to the boat. Moving down the Ohio, LEWIS'S dog, Seaman, catches squirrels swimming the river, and LEWIS notes that many settlers suffer from malaria and ague.
"Set out this morning at 11 oClock was prevented seting out earlyer in consequence of two of my men geting drunk and absenting themselves. I f[i]nally found them and had them brought on board, so drunk that they were unable to help themselves passed several riffles and lay all night on the N. W. shore—
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September 13, 1803.
Marietta, Ohio.
PHOTO: Muskigum and Ohio Rivers at Marietta. © 2021 by Robert Heacock.
Starting at sunrise, the boats move nine miles down the Ohio. They lift the barge over a few riffles and see a large flock of passenger pigeons, now extinct. Anchored opposite Marietta, Ohio, LEWIS writes a letter to PRESIDENT JEFFERSON.
Muskingum [mus KING gum] may be from the Shawnee (Algonquian) /məškeekwaamÉ™Äki/ meaning “where the land is swampy.â€
LEWIS and REUBIN FIELD lunched on a few passenger pigeons at CAMP DISAPPOINTMENT on 25 July 1806. That they and our forebears could eat an entire species into extermination, was not conceivable then. For that matter, extinction as a scientific concept was not yet proven either.
LETTER TO JEFFERSON
"On board my boat opposite Marietta
September 13th 1803.
I arrived here at 7. P.M. and shall pursue my journey early tomorrow. This place is one hundred miles distant from Wheeling, from whence in descending the water is reather more abundant than it is between that place and Pittsburgh, insomuch that I have been enabled to get on without the necessity employing oxen or horses to drag my boat over the ripples except in two instances . . . .
MERIWETHER LEWIS. Capt.
1st U.S. Regt. Infty."
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October 8th, 1803.
Speculations On Massive Bones.
Photo: Ohio River near Petersburg. Date and photographer unknown. See www.nkyviews.com.
On or near this date, LEWIS departs aboard the barge with fossils from Big Bone Lick. Fellow traveler THOMAS RODNEY speculates that the “massy forms of bone [are] beyond the size of any animals existing or that ever did existâ€.
After departing Big Bone Lick, THOMAS RODNEY examines the fossils he had collected there, and speculates that they may be not be the actual bones of animals, but nature’s recreation, and exaggeration, of decomposed animals. LEWIS likely made his own speculations as he traveled between Big Bone Lick and the Falls of the Ohio on 8 October.
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September 10th, 1803.
Exploring Indian Mounds.
Fearing his corporal has deserted, LEWIS is relieved when the soldier appears in the morning. LEWIS explores ancient Indian mounds at present Moundsville, and the boats make 24 miles down the Ohio River stopping opposite present Clarington, Ohio.
"I landed on the east side of R. and went on shore to view a remarkable artificial mound of earth called by the people in this neighbourhood the Indian grave.—
—Meriwether Lewis"
"the [largest] mound stands on the most elivated ground of a large bottom containing about 4000 acres of land . . . . the mound is nearly a regular cone 310 yards in circumpherence at it’s base & 65 feet high terminating in a blont point whose diameter is 30 feet, this point is concave being depressed about five feet in the center
—Meriwether Lewis"
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September 8th, 1803.
Buying Another Pirogue.
At Wheeling in present West Virginia, LEWIS re-supplies and gives the crew a day to rest. He writes a letter to PRESIDENT JEFFERSON, purchases another pirogue to help carry the load, and meets with DOCTOR WILLIAM PATTERSON who offers to come along. He dines, and later has dessert, with THOMAS RODNEY.
LEWIS WRITES TO JEFFERSON
"I have been compelled to purchase a pirogue at this place in order to transport the baggage which was sent by land from Pittburgh [Pittsburgh], and also to lighten the boat as much as possible. On many bars the water in the deepest part does not exceed six inches. I have the honour to be with the most perfect regard and sincere attatchment Your Obt. Servt.
MERIWETHER LEWIS. Capt.
1st U.S. Regt. Infty."
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September 7th, 1803.
Wheeling, (West) Virginia.
PHOTO: Wheeling, (West) Virginia. by Victor Collot, A Journey in North America (1796).
LEWIS and his crew reach WHEELING in present West Virginia, a common port of departure for Ohio River boats. LEWIS inspects the cargo that had arrived by wagon over the Braddock Road. In the evening, he meets with THOMAS RODNEY who is also traveling down the Ohio.
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