THIS MO. DNR MONUMENT IS LOCATED RIGHT ON THE MISSOURI ARKANSAS STATE LINE.
HIGHWAY 37 EAST RIGHT OF WAY.
20 FEET SOUTH OF MISSOURI STATE LINE SIGN AND 2 FEET NORTH OF THE ORIGINAL STONE.
FROM SELIGMAN FOLLOW HWY 37 SOUTH TO STATE LINE AND STATION ON THE EAST R.O.W.
FROM ARKANSAS FOLLOW 37 NORTH TO STATION ON EAST R.O.W.
MISSOURI DNR STANDARD ALUMINUM DISC.
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The Missouri Department of Natural Resources Land Survey Program, along with the Arkansas Land Commissioners Land Survey Division, have combined to resolve a long-running concern over the location of the state boundary line between Missouri and Arkansas.
This was accomplished by locating the marks of the 1848 survey and restoring those positions with new markers and monuments. They generally consisted of a 36-inch long by 2.5-inch diameter aluminium pipe with a 3 inch diameter aluminium cap, stamped to mark the position. With the new markers in place, future surveyors and landowners along the state line will find it easier to locate property boundaries.
This boundary line was first established in 1848 by surveyors on foot, horseback and in wagons. They set boundary markers with mounds of soil, wood posts and witness trees blazed and scribed to identify the mileposts. The state-of-the-art at the time used a surveyor s compass and a Gunter 33-foot chain. Although the accuracy of the boundary didn t meet the standards of today, the result of the 1848 survey remains the location of the Missouri-Arkansas state boundary line.
Today, what we now see as primitive methodology has given way to electronic distance measurement, computer technology and the use of the global positioning system (GPS). This provides surveyors the ability to measure very accurately.
According to Mike Flowers, state land surveyor and the Land Survey Program director with the department s Geological Survey and Resource Assessment Division (GSRAD), "The boundary line was brought to our attention about three years ago. The first request came from the Missouri Department of Transportation and two county surveyors from Barry and McDonald Counties."
In question was the intersection at Route 71 as it crosses into Arkansas just north of the Bella Vista Resort area. This was followed by requests from private landowners to look at the boundary east of this location.
"The more we evaluated, not only was it necessary to resurvey those specific areas, but there appeared to be a genuine need for resurveying the entire stretch between the southwest corner of the state, a bit south of Southwest City, and extending east to the community of Seilgman in Barry County," Flowers continued. "Three years later, having conducted all of the work, we have arrived at the completion of this project."
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Contact:
Mike Flowers at (573) 368-2301.