Survey Monuments

This layer represents the location of high-order geodetic monuments set by Prince William County. These monuments are placed throughout the County and are used as anchoring points for land surveyors. There are 17 recorded points in the data layer. Its attribute information includes fields such as ownership, latitude, longitude, elevation, and station name for the particular monument on the day it was set. The 17 Monuments are B Order and set by Prince William County in 2001. They are Blue Booked with the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) within the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the detailed information and monument data sheets can be found at - https://geodesy.noaa.gov/datasheets/ . The NGS monument designations are PW01 through PW17.