R/W Markers in the South

[mcdonaat]

Baton Rouge has their own R/W marker styles, along with the parish and state, and FAP markers. The state has about four styles, and pictures coming once the weather clears up. Anyone else have photos of their own state's markers?

I know Miss has short markers, and the only one I know of is along MS 33 at LA 19, right at the state line. Too low on gas to photograph!

[agentsteel53]

South Carolina's markers are painted blue.  Texas is silver.

I do have the occasional photo of a right of way marker, but I have not ever attempted to document them systematically.  Another thing to look out for is FAP markers.  I know of one in Mississippi which is an embossed steel diamond, on an old US-90 alignment which is now a residential street.  Florida has cast iron ones.

[US71]

Baton Rouge has their own R/W marker styles, along with the parish and state, and FAP markers. The state has about four styles, and pictures coming once the weather clears up. Anyone else have photos of their own state's markers?

I know Miss has short markers, and the only one I know of is along MS 33 at LA 19, right at the state line. Too low on gas to photograph!

Arkansas uses a triangle pointing down, as does MoDOT. I thought I had photos, but I can't find them. Time to grab the camera and shoot them again

[NE2]

Florida's older ones are concrete with two lines:
SRD [State Road Department]
R/W

[mcdonaat]

Any photos?

[NE2]

Any photos?

You should know how to find them... [url="http://www.google.com/search?q="SRD"]http://www.google.com/search?q="SRD[/url] R%2FW"&tbm=isch

[mcdonaat]

Any photos?

You should know how to find them... [url="http://www.google.com/search?q="SRD"]http://www.google.com/search?q="SRD[/url] R%2FW"&tbm=isch

I meant photos that people have taken on the forums... or at least where you know one exists.

[NE2]

Is a photo taken by one of us somehow different from another photo? Is this some weird fetish?

[mcdonaat]

Is a photo taken by one of us somehow different from another photo? Is this some weird fetish?

LOL no. I checked online, and the only ones I saw were for Indiana, California, and Louisiana. Roadgeeks on here usually know what to look for, other photos are hard to come by.

[NE2]

The first ones in my link are all from Florida...

[Brian556]

Texas is silver

Huh?

The only two versions that I have seen are :
1: concrete obliesk monuments.
2. unpainted wood dome-top posts.

The only silver posts that I have seen are the old-style dome-top wood posts painted silver, with a black band that served as early deliniators.

[agentsteel53]

Texas is silver

Huh?

The only two versions that I have seen are :
1: concrete obliesk monuments.
2. unpainted wood dome-top posts.

The only silver posts that I have seen are the old-style dome-top wood posts painted silver, with a black band that served as early deliniators.

might be a West Texas thing... plenty of silver ones along old alignments of 62, 80, etc, all further west than the panhandle.

[bjrush]

I don't really think of it as the South, but here is one from Missouri



Here is what Arkansas uses

[formulanone]

Florida:



Missouri:



Georgia and South Carolina's are quite easy to find, both seem to be a simple concrete post, ranging from 1-2 feet out of the ground. Found a bunch in Louisiana recently, but I couldn't get a good photo without plodding through about six inches of mud (LA 78 had a bunch). Seemed to be similar to GA/SC.

I have a pic somewhere of a concrete one from Arkansas; hard to get to, as I had to put my camera over the fence to get a less-obstructed shot.

[agentsteel53]

cool!  never seen the Missouri MHTD variant - just the SHD in both cast and embossed form.

[formulanone]

Not the best shot, but this stone R/W marker was located along US 65 Business in Pine Bluff. It was near this gantry.

[Fred Defender]

Anybody wanna buy one?

I'm not talking about living adjacent to a Florida state highway. My wife and I live approximately two miles from the nearest (formerly) state road. I actually saw this one removed from the ground alongside a county road in Alachua County about ten years ago. I figured that, (1) It was no longer in the ground, and (2) The highway was no longer a state road. So the wife and I went out and loaded it into the back of our 4-Runner.  I give her a lot of credit because these damn things are HEAVY. It is in the ground out front along our fence line.

[bjrush]

Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas

[WashuOtaku]

South Carolina has rules on when, where, and what R/W markers should be made and look like.
http://www.scdot.org/doing/technicalPDFs/standardDrawings/809-000-00.pdf

[WashuOtaku]

Also, North Carolina R/W markers are also cement.  Here is one in Hendersonville, NC, next to a Geodetic Survey marker.