Survey marker (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Survey marker" in English language version.

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"18 U.S. Code § 1858 - Survey marks destroyed or removed". United States. Whoever willfully destroys, defaces, changes, or removes to another place any section corner, quarter-section corner, or meander post, on any Government line of survey, or willfully cuts down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a Government survey, or willfully defaces, changes, or removes any monument or bench mark of any Government survey, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned

For a comprehensive history of these marks in the United States, together with photos of all of the key variations, see the PDF of the article by CDR George E. Leigh, NOAA Corps (Ret’d.).
Here is a sample datasheet that describes a triangulation station with three reference marks. Distances and directions from the station to these reference marks are given in the outlined box on the datasheet. Originally there were a number of references to surrounding structures, but these structures were all later reported as destroyed. A later visitor then provided some new references.
The NGS datasheet-from-PID form is located here.
Here is the NGS web-based form for getting a datasheet for a station with a known name.

Here Archived 2012-02-24 at the Wayback Machine is an account of recovering (re-finding) a buried station mark from 1890 for which the surface mark had been destroyed. This account also describes the use of reference marks to locate station marks.

"Survey markers and road ledger markers in Nagoya". Archived from the original on 2020-02-20. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
Here Archived 2012-02-24 at the Wayback Machine is an account of recovering (re-finding) a buried station mark from 1890 for which the surface mark had been destroyed. This account also describes the use of reference marks to locate station marks.