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TVA - property marker?
#3030131
02/01/20 07:41 PM
02/01/20 07:41 PM
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Joined: Oct 2018
Posts: 260
Ft Payne, Alabama
Jim Gray
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Ft Payne, Alabama
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Has anyone ever seen one of these before? I haven't. It's set in 4"x 4" square concrete. with a 3-digit number (that I've taken out.) It's within Wheeler Wildlife Refuge. It looks like it's had been painted orange at some point. I wonder if TVA has a website that shed any light? [img] https://imgur.com/NE7jpZi[/img]
Last edited by Jim Gray; 02/01/20 08:16 PM.
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Re: TVA - property marker?
[Re: Jim Gray]
#3030139
02/01/20 07:51 PM
02/01/20 07:51 PM
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North Alabama
Wiley Coyote
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Freak of Nature
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I've seen a lot of TVA survey markers set in concrete like that in my part of Marshall County. That was a long time ago in my teen years when roaming the woods all day long was OK and people respected one another.
I firmly believe that a double gallows should be constructed on the East Lawn of The White House. Politicians who willfully and shamelessly violate their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America should be swiftly tried and, upon conviction, publicly hanged at sunup the day after conviction. If multiple convicts are to be hanged they can choose with whom to share the gallows or names shall be drawn from the hangman's hat to be hanged 2 at a time.
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Re: TVA - property marker?
[Re: Jim Gray]
#3030142
02/01/20 07:53 PM
02/01/20 07:53 PM
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Boaz,AL
CarbonClimber1
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Boaz,AL
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More rhan likely its either a corner or an elevation marker. They like to put them in highspots..sometimes they mark old cemetaries...homeplaces and stuff like that. Most of the ones ive found are elevation markers..if you topo a high spot on tva land and walk to the peak i can almost guarantee you there will be one there somewhere. I dont know how many ive found..but its alot..and i can take you to all of them from memory.
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Re: TVA - property marker?
[Re: Jim Gray]
#3030153
02/01/20 08:12 PM
02/01/20 08:12 PM
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Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,825
Henry county
coldtrail
12 point
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Henry county
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Some type of survey point. Had one the corner of my lot I sold
"And the days that I keep my gratitude
Higher than my expectations
Well, I have really good days" Ray Wylie Hubbard
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Re: TVA - property marker?
[Re: CarbonClimber1]
#3030166
02/01/20 08:21 PM
02/01/20 08:21 PM
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Ft Payne, Alabama
Jim Gray
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I fixed it. More rhan likely its either a corner or an elevation marker. They like to put them in highspots..sometimes they mark old cemetaries...homeplaces and stuff like that. Most of the ones ive found are elevation markers..if you topo a high spot on tva land and walk to the peak i can almost guarantee you there will be one there somewhere. I dont know how many ive found..but its alot..and i can take you to all of them from memory. coldtrail - you are exactly correct, sir. I was next to an abandoned graveyard and it appeared to convey the message "Here's the corner."
Father, son,husband, old soldier, christian and 100% American.
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Re: TVA - property marker?
[Re: Jim Gray]
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02/02/20 08:17 AM
02/02/20 08:17 AM
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Ft Payne, Alabama
Jim Gray
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Ft Payne, Alabama
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Do you think that this an original marker that was put out in the 30's or was it put out later?
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Re: TVA - property marker?
[Re: grundan]
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02/02/20 08:48 AM
02/02/20 08:48 AM
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Ft Payne, Alabama
Jim Gray
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Ft Payne, Alabama
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Survey benchmark. TVA most likely has a map with all the benchmarks on their property as well as others. If those numbers are in the 5-600 range, it is the elevation at that point. Survey monuments have Latitude, Longitude and elevation. grundan, I was originally thinking BM, too, but it's # is half of the location's elevation.
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Re: TVA - property marker?
[Re: Jim Gray]
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02/02/20 09:29 AM
02/02/20 09:29 AM
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North Alabama
Wiley Coyote
Freak of Nature
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North Alabama
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If you have USGS topo maps of the area, you will find that TVA elevation monuments are shown on them. At least my old USGS topo maps of Marshall County show them.
I firmly believe that a double gallows should be constructed on the East Lawn of The White House. Politicians who willfully and shamelessly violate their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America should be swiftly tried and, upon conviction, publicly hanged at sunup the day after conviction. If multiple convicts are to be hanged they can choose with whom to share the gallows or names shall be drawn from the hangman's hat to be hanged 2 at a time.
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Re: TVA - property marker?
[Re: Jim Gray]
#3030682
02/02/20 04:24 PM
02/02/20 04:24 PM
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 5,050
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Bamabucks14
12 point
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Posts: 5,050
Fayetteville, Tennessee
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As a surveyor, I see them all the time. It’s the state trying to put something in a little more permanent than a 1/2” X 18” rebar. However, they are not always set with the best accuracy. I’ve actually known a GW to set a few, having absolutely no surveying experience lol.
"Here, take this land mine and protect your property with it."
-Ron Swanson
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Re: TVA - property marker?
[Re: grundan]
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02/02/20 04:26 PM
02/02/20 04:26 PM
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Fayetteville, Tennessee
Bamabucks14
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Survey benchmark. TVA most likely has a map with all the benchmarks on their property as well as others. If those numbers are in the 5-600 range, it is the elevation at that point. Survey monuments have Latitude, Longitude and elevation. If they are on SPC, other than that they do not require LL&E. If you paid me enough, I could set concrete monuments on all your corners.
"Here, take this land mine and protect your property with it."
-Ron Swanson
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