FUN FACTS ABOUT LAND SURVEYING
- Brigham Young along with other leaders of the Mormon Church proclaimed that “this is the place” for Great Salt Lake City .
- 3 of the 4 presidents on Mt. Rushmore were surveyors: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.
- In August 1855, David H. Burr, first U.S. Surveyor-General of Utah used the initial point established by Orson Pratt as the initial point of public land surveys in Utah. He preserved the point with a stone monument. A replica stone is still stands in that position.
