KSLS 6TH PM Traveling Patch #4

This travel bug is on a quest to stay on the move and visit every geocache in the state of Kansas, collecting stories and photos of adventures along the way. If you find that this item has strayed outside of Kansas, please send it back to a Kansas geocache. The number on the back of the tag is used ONLY for the "Travel Bug Tracking #" field to verify that you really did physically see this travel bug. Use "TB11XZD" if you wish to reference the travel bug in your log description.

-Other KSLS travel bugs

This is a patch duplicating the metal lid that covers an important surveying monument known as the Initial Point of the Sixth Principal Meridian. This monument can be found at the Kansas-Nebraska border, one mile west and one mile north of the city of Mahaska, Kansas. The date on the right side of the lid is when a memorial was erected by the Initial Point of the 6th Principal Meridian. The date on the right of the patch is when surveyors across multiple states celebrated the 150th Anniversary of the placing of the original monument which included a geocaching Cache In - Trash Out event.

Questions or comments may be logged here as a "note",
sent to KSLS through the Geocaching.com profile,
or with direct email to geocacher@sktc.net.

-Link to an article about the CITO event in Point Of Beginning Magazine
-Link to the story of the monument in Point Of Beginning Magazine.

KANSAS SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS

Breaking the boundaries between surveying and geocaching!

The Kansas Society of Land Surveyors (KSLS) has a Geocaching Project. The KSLS Geocaching Project is an excellent opportunity to promote the profession of land surveying as a viable career choice. Geocachers use GPS to find and set things that are not obvious to the eye. Land surveyors also use GPS (among lots of other cool and expensive toys) to find and set things that are not obvious to the eye. Geocachers try to get the best GPS accuracy possible; surveyors use GPS equipment with accuracy that boggles the mind. Geocachers may look for bench marks, whereas surveyors often set bench marks. The two activities have many similarities.

Look up a surveying company in your area in the phone book under the heading of "surveyors". Call them up; tell them about this travel bug; and ask them why they do what they do. You can even submit a log here about what their response was.

For more information on surveying, select any of the following:
List of KSLS geocaches
home page for KSLS
The NSPS Geocaching Project GCXWVE
home page for NSPS - NATIONAL Society of Professional Surveyors