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Site No. RH00 062

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
87001001

Added to NRHP
  
19 June 1987

Built
  
1855 (1855)

Opened
  
1855

Nearest city
  
Rulo

Site No. RH00-062

MPS
  
Nebraska--Kansas Public Land Survey TR

Site No. RH00-062 is a survey monument located at the tripoint of Richardson County, Nebraska, and Brown and Doniphan counties in Kansas. The cast iron monument is 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and 16 inches (410 mm) square at its base. The monument marks the starting point of the land survey of the Kansas-Nebraska border along the 40th parallel north, which intersects the top of the Missouri River's western bluff at this spot. U.S. Deputy Surveyor Charles A. Manners erected the monument in 1855 at the beginning of the survey. In 1924, the monument was displaced and reset at the wrong location before Leo M. Petersen reset it in a sturdier base.

The monument was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 19, 1987.

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Site No. RH00-062 Wikipedia