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Winter Membership Meeting / Surveyor's Roundtable - Dec. 11th
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.
Past Meetings
Seiler Spring Membership Meeting - March 27th
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
Summer Membership Meeting - July 17th
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
Summer/Fall Membership Meeting - August 21st
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
Golf Outing w/ IPLSA Southwest Chapter
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With the stroke of a pen Louisiana passed from the French to the Spanish control. The Treaty of Fontainbleau, signed November 13, 1762, repayed Spain for their casualties supporting the French in the Seven Years War, commonly referred to as the French and Indian War. With the fall of Quebec to English forces in 1759 and the loss of Montreal in the following year, the French were compelled to surrender Canada, so Louisiana was no longer important to hold the English back to the Atlantic coast. Louisiana had never been economically profitable for the French and they spent the 60 years making friends with opposing Native American tribes, and arming them with guns. Something the Spanish had long refused to do in the region. ... See MoreSee Less
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Winter Membership Meeting / Surveyor's Roundtable - Dec. 11th, 2024
6-8pm. We have requested 1.5 PDUs for attendance of this meeting.
At the offices of @clayton_engineering – 2268 Welsch Industrial Ct., St. Louis, MO 63146.
There will be a Hot Dog & Bratwurst Bar catered by @steveshotdogs.
We will be presenting the family of Richard J. Barr with his Final Point, commissioned by NSPS - The National Society of Professional Surveyors
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. ... See MoreSee Less
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Richard Joseph Barr passed away this September, and he will be commemorated with a Final Point monument, per the directive in place by the National Society of Professional Surveyors NSPS. The monument is currently in production by Bernsten, and is planned to be given to Rich's family at the December 11th. St. Louis Chapter MSPS meeting at the offices of The Clayton Engineer, followed by the winter membership meeting.
A Lost Monument page has been created with his obituary and other information on the Chapter Website in Rich's honor and can be found here: stlsurveyor.org/richard-j-barr/ ... See MoreSee Less
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A fascinating article by Don Martin, PLS from this past June Missouri Surveyor continued the story of retracing the Osage Treaty Line along the western Missouri State border (the first western border).
See the full article in the Field Notes section of our website here: stlsurveyor.org/osagetreatylinecontinued/ ... See MoreSee Less
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Replacing NAD 83 and NAVD 88 have been in the works for a long time; now the change is getting near.
Read the full article from the September issue of Missouri Surveyor on the Field Notes section of our website here: stlsurveyor.org/noaa-new-datum/ ... See MoreSee Less
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State Tech in Linn, MO offers their Survey Program each year and the St. Louis Chapter proud to have a banner in the activity center for students to see year-round. If you have not visited the campus, it is impressive! I stopped through on my way back from the 67th Annual Conference for a few quick pictures.
State Tech currently offers 5 survey courses, 3 of which are approved for Legal Aspects of and Surveying:
SUR 240 – Surveying I
SUR 241 – Surveying II
SUR 242 – Land Records: Researching and
Rules of Const.
(formerly called Fundamentals of Surv.)
SUR 243 – Legal Aspects of Boundary Surveying
SUR 244 – Elements of Surveying Practice
Visit their surveying page here: statetechmo.edu/surveying/ ... See MoreSee Less
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