March 17, 2014
Bill Dolan

Lake County Surveyor Bill Emerson Jr. has posted online the location of hundreds of official surveying monuments to make his office’s documents more available to the public.

Emerson said Monday the new service will primarily aid professional surveyors in mapping sections of the county for purposes of future economic development. The monuments form a grid surveyors use to mark property lines.

The documents are a series of maps of the location of each of hundreds of official monuments in relation to visible landmarks, such as roads, fire hydrants or utility towers.

Emerson said, “This is in line with my policy of putting as much information online and (making) it as accessible as possible.

“Surveyors are always looking for a section corner, which shows them where their survey should begin to be accurate. Before this was online, if they were doing a survey in Whiting or Hammond, they had to drive down to Crown Point to see the card before they could move forward. It saves them time,” he said.

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