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Survey Monument Locations History
The original land survey of Wisconsin was conducted between 1832 and 1866 by the federal General Land Office. The work was done using the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), which divides land into 6 mile square townships and one-mile square sections. The original PLS notes for Ozaukee County were completed in 1834, and are accessible online at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, General Library System.
Monuments
All across the continental U.S. as well as in Alaska and Hawaii there is a network of survey monuments which are bronze disks about 8 to 10 centimeters in diameter set in rock or permanent structures. These monuments are survey reference points that have been set by licensed surveyors since 1879 and are the basis for the United States PLSS (USPLSS). The reference points, or control stations, are generally set at section corners, quarter-section corners, or center of sections.
The original land survey of Wisconsin was conducted between 1832 and 1866 by the federal General Land Office. The work was done using the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), which divides land into 6 mile square townships and one-mile square sections. The original PLS notes for Ozaukee County were completed in 1834, and are accessible online at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, General Library System.
Monuments
All across the continental U.S. as well as in Alaska and Hawaii there is a network of survey monuments which are bronze disks about 8 to 10 centimeters in diameter set in rock or permanent structures. These monuments are survey reference points that have been set by licensed surveyors since 1879 and are the basis for the United States PLSS (USPLSS). The reference points, or control stations, are generally set at section corners, quarter-section corners, or center of sections.
Dossiers
A dossier sheet is a record of a USPLSS control station, or witness corner. Each sheet contains an identification of the corner and a sketch of the station in relation to important features in its immediate vicinity as an aid to its recovery in the field. The dossier sheets also show all witness monuments and ties, monument coordinates (NAD27) and elevations (NGVD29), a surveyor's affidavit, and the land surveyor's registration seal and signature.
Map Points
Ozaukee County's cadastral base map that utilizes these section corner and quarter corner survey monuments as reference points to constantly update and include the following information:
A dossier sheet is a record of a USPLSS control station, or witness corner. Each sheet contains an identification of the corner and a sketch of the station in relation to important features in its immediate vicinity as an aid to its recovery in the field. The dossier sheets also show all witness monuments and ties, monument coordinates (NAD27) and elevations (NGVD29), a surveyor's affidavit, and the land surveyor's registration seal and signature.
Map Points
Ozaukee County's cadastral base map that utilizes these section corner and quarter corner survey monuments as reference points to constantly update and include the following information:
- All easement descriptions when found
- All property boundaries as originally platted when identifiable
- All property measurements where available
- All real property boundaries
- All road, street, highway right-of-way lines
- All tax key numbers
- Area of parcel in acres when appropriate