Southern Missouri Surveying

12/24/2025

Adventures in Surveying….

12/22/2025

Adventures in Surveying
We have been keeping the roads hot over the last few months. Here are some of the places we visited……

09/17/2025

06/05/2025

Adventures in Surveying

We stumbled onto a turkey nest with some hatched poults running about. This one stood in place just long enough to let me take a snap shot.

05/23/2025

Adventures in Surveying

05/07/2025

Survey monuments are not the only thing we find while we are out and about. My co-worker, Haidan, found this fawn this morning, while closing a gate. We had just opened the gate about 30 minutes prior and did not notice it lying there. I’m sure momma wasn’t too far away….

05/02/2025

Literally working on the railroad….The old Current River Railroad. Completed in 1889 at a cost of $1.5 million. It was abandoned in the 1970’s, when the tracks were pulled up. I’ve worked in this railroad several times, locating their old boundaries as they often come into play with surveys of years past. You can still visibly see the old rail beds, hand-stacked rock culverts, deconstructed bridges and their abutments. All these structures play a key role in reconstructing the alignments and their respective right of ways. If you walk long enough, you can still find railroad spikes,track bolts and even some old communication wire and towers.

04/03/2025