by admin | Apr 8, 2023 | Field Notes
Our St. Louis Chapter retractable banner turned out awesome! Thanks to our sponsors for supporting this effort and Drexeltech for printing and putting it together! This is an attention getter, and full of information about rockstar surveyor Joseph C. Brown. Once...
by admin | Apr 8, 2023 | Field Notes
In 2016, the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors and the SW Chapter MSPS installed a monument and sign at the most southerly point in Missouri on the Osage Treaty Line which was tied to the USPLSS. Â Additionally a commemorative stone was placed at the National...
by admin | Apr 8, 2023 | Field Notes
For more than 60 years, the United States has had two definitions of the foot to measure length. One is the US survey foot, which dates to 1893 and is expressed as a fraction: 1200/3937 meters, or 0.3048006096… meters. The other is the slightly shorter and more exact...
by admin | Mar 19, 2023 | Field Notes
[Show slideshow] Dedication of the Joseph C. Brown Memorial by Stan Emerick The fall weather forecast called for sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-sixties. One could not have asked for a nicer day to celebrate this special occasion. It had been more than a year...
by admin | Mar 18, 2023 | Field Notes
New Exhibit at State Museum Features a Historic Surveyor’s Compass Family of Bob Myers Shares the Artifact by Donald Martin and Matt Thomas The Missouri State Museum in the State Capitol has opened a new exhibit which features a surveying connection to our state’s...
by admin | Mar 1, 2023 | Field Notes
The NSPS Day On The Hill is March 29, 2023 Here’s what that means: NSPS members will travel to Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to meet with members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and their staffs to discuss (1) the need for improved...
