Down By The River Traditional Cache
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The cache is a camouflage sandwich box near the north line of the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of section 20, Township 1 South, Range 6 West, of the Willamette Meridian (PLSS - see below)
This cache was established by the Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon, the Oregon Association of County Engineers and Surveyors, the Oregon GPS Users Group and the National Society of Professional Land Surveyors geocache program which has a goal of promoting the surveying profession at national and state levels.
The cache is located along the North Fork of the North Fork of the Trask river, 25 miles East of Tillamook and 24 miles west of Yamhill. The roads from Yamhill are typically gated during the summer fire season.
Originally proposed by Thomas Jefferson, the PLSS began shortly after the Revolutionary War. The Land Ordinance of 1785 which provided for the systematic survey and monumentation of public domain lands, and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 which established a rectangular survey system designed to facilitate the transfer of Federal lands to private citizens, were the beginning of the PLSS. The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a way of subdividing and describing land in the United States. The PLSS typically divided land into 6-mile-square townships. Townships are subdivided into 36 one-mile- square sections. Sections can be further subdivided into quarter sections, quarter-quarter sections, or irregular government lots. Normally, a permanent monument, or marker, is placed at each section corner. Monuments are also placed at quarter-section corners and at other important points, such as the corners of government lots. Today permanent monuments are usually set on iron rods or in concrete. The original PLSS surveys were often marked by wooden stakes or posts, marked trees, pits, or piles of rock, or other less-permanent markers.
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