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CITO at the 6TH PM Cache In Trash Out® Event

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KSLS - Kansas Society of Land Surveyors: The surveyors of Kansas and Nebraska are working on a project to renovate this site. See you then.

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Hidden : Saturday, June 11, 2016
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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CITO from 9AM to 10AM.  After that we will hang out and socialize.

Generally located midway east of U.S.81 and west of State Highway 15 on the Kansas/Nebraska border, one mile west and one mile north of the city of Mahaska, Kansas.

CITO supplies will be available, but feel free to bring your own if you have them.







The Kansas-Nebraska Act of May 30, 1854, created the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, to be surveyed before settlement of the prairies could proceed. On May 8, 1855, Charles A. Manners set a cast-iron monument at 40° north latitude and then surveyed west from the monument 108 miles establishing the base-line. This was the boundary of Kansas and Nebraska and at the 6th Principal Meridian, the Initial Point was established. This Initial Point, a red sandstone which lies under a manhole cover controls the system of sections, townships and ranges of public land surveys in Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota. This Initial Point is referenced in all ownership records throughout the system.

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