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Nevertheless, the cadastral surveyors subdividing the township where the post was located arrived only months after Wheeler’s survey.
Fortunately, they tied to one of Wheeler’s survey monuments.
GLO township plat illustrating Fort Churchill and a tie to a post
Wheeler’s map of the Fort Churchill Military Reservation, UNR Special Collections
The cadastral tie was to the northeast corner of Wheeler’s parallelogram-shaped reservation boundary. Unfortunately, that corner
now falls in a cultivated field. We plotted the post boundary on Google Earth and determined search coordinates and then headed to
the fort.
We began the search at Corner IV, the northwest corner, and after a brief search, found the rotted remains of a post with barely legible
scribing and a prominent cross cut into the top of the post. We tied it and headed to the southeast corner.
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