This location marks the point where all land in Nebraska, Kansas and most land in Colorado and Wyoming and parts of South Dakota were surveyed and subdivided. Two markers are located on the site, one State of Nebraska Marker and a stone monument placed there by the American Association of Surveyors. The spot was first surveyed by Col. Charles A. Manners in 1856 as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. All legal land descriptions---all sections, all ownership and use documents, and all city, farm, and lot boundaries within the sixth principal meridian----come from this....
