re: How do surveyors determine elevation of land?

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Understand that. But as I stated, I did not inderstand that he was asking specifically about elevation in relation to sea level.

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If you want to get into it in a cheap way, you can do the following...

Get a +6 foot piece of straight lumber and make 6 inch markings all along it. At the 6 ft take a small piece of wood and make it level at that height.



Next, you can use an app on your phone or get a cheap Silva Ranger compass.




Then all you need to do is learn how to take a bearing and then inclination and then the two over a distance...accurately. If you can do that you can survey anywhere...



But companies have way more sophisticated equipment. That is the bare bones stuff...


Like another poster said, hope you like getting into water, brambles, and ticks/gnats/skeeters.