North Tippah Creek Range NT-4
In SE 1/4 SW 1/4 Sec. 13; NE 1/4 NW 1/4 and W 1/2 NE 1/4 Sec. 24, T-4-S, R-2-E, crossing straightened channel of North Tippah Creek about 2200 feet W of E line of Sec. 24.
Magnetic bearing N 40°12' W, left to right, 1969. Reported bearing N 41°30' W in 1939, perhaps not on exactly same line.
Original monument NT-4-R destroyed. Line reestablished 1969 from approximate recorded bearing, topography, and distance to ditch crossing.
Capped 1.5 inch pipe NT-4-RX set 1969 at Sta. 2+33, at E-W fence line on Hines Graves land, about 350 feet W of Embry Creek and about 1000 feet W of N 1/4 corner of Sec. 24. Blazed 14 inch water oak 27 feet S 60° W mag. Blazed 10 inch trunk of triple ash 13.7 feet S 34° E. Blazed 5 inch trunk of double hackberry 40 feet S 79° E. 18 inch hackberry 180 feet E on fence line. Elevation of pipe 400.325 (1969).
Monument NT-4-L at Sta. 30+67 on W. C. Childress land, 30 feet W of S end of small dam, about 215 feet N of E-W road along 1/4 section line. TBM Xnails in NW root of 11 inch pin oak 43.2 feet due E (mag.) along fence line. 32 inch red oak, 15 feet S of pond, 90 feet S 84° E. Blazed 7 inch cedar 28 feet S 78° W. Two large black gums 2.5 feet downstream from range, 78 feet from monument. Elevation of monument 407.175 (1939); TBM 409.625 (1969).
For more data, you can download a copy of the field notes for Range NT-4 from the 1969 resurvey (2.9 MB). The field notes were scanned from photocopies of the original survey notebook, and are provided in pdf format.
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