Remonumentation Program

The Remonumentation Program is funded 100 percent by the State of Michigan, Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. The program began as a 20-year effort to survey the State of Michigan. However, the time has been extended to complete the program. In Macomb County, the Maintenance Plan began in January of 2023. The Maintenance Plan provides for all original public land survey corners or protracted public land survey corners included in the county plan, and associated geodetic coordinates, to be maintained by requiring the filing of a land corner recordation certificate (LCRC) as required by the corner recordation act.

The first and last survey of the State was commissioned in 1815 and took approximately 40 years to complete. Original markers were 4-foot-long wooden posts. Most of the original markers have been removed due to road construction and development. The wooden posts have also deteriorated over time. Nonetheless, some of the original monuments have been recovered by following in the footsteps of the original surveyors and careful excavation.

The contracted surveying firms have researched, monumented, and approved a total of 2,409 GLO section corners, private claim corners, and property-controlling corners in Macomb County through December 31, 2022. The surveyors have also established 93 Global Positioning System (GPS) monuments and placed State Plane Coordinate values on 1,680 corner monuments. The GPS monuments and State Plane Coordinate values placed on the corner monuments provide reference points for computerized mapping.