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Are boundary markers really completely deprecated in much of the world? Here in Finland, private properties still commonly feature them, and it's illegal to mov

• hermitdev 8y ago
  Not sure. I know one corner of my parent's land in Montana has a physical marker. Maybe because it's a joint boundary between state, federal and private land. It is also really hard to find, as it's in the bottom of a ravine in heavy brush and it's a ground level bronze (I think) spike like an oversized nail hammered into the ground. You really have to know where the boundary is within a few feet already to have even the slightest hope of finding it. I found it once as a teen, but 2 decades later, I'd be hard pressed to find it.
  • ucaetano 8y ago
    That might also be a USGS reference marker, used for topographic surveys.
    • hermitdev 8y ago
      Could be. On further reflection, I also recall small plastic spikes that were significantly smaller (about an inch in diameter) on the private boundary. Only found one or two of those.
    • dmckeon 8y ago
      Did it look like one of these? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_marker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_marker
• groby_b 8y ago
  Nope. They're still used at the very least in the US and Germany. There are different versions of it - most common are probably a metal nail (if you have stone or something else to anchor it in), a metal pipe (if dirt is all you've got) or a massive, pain-in-the ass to lug around stone. (My dad's a surveyor, and in my youth I was cheap labor. I still hate boundary marker stones :) It's AIUI not _necessary_ to have them, but if you have a property dispute, they come in handy.