Welcome to the District of Columbia
Association of Land Surveyors (DCALS)

Founded in 2001, DCALS is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the sciences of Surveying and Mapping and to the improvement of the Profession of Land Surveying in the District of Columbia. 

DCALS in a Collaborative effort with other local fellow Survey Organizations a yearly Itinerary of theirs' and our events.

DCALS UPCOMING 2013 EVENTS!

June 5, 2013 . . . DCALS Board of Directors meeting, DCRA Third-Floor Conference Room E-380, 1100 4th Street SW, 5:30 pm.

June 12, 2013 . . . DCALS June General Membership Meeting, at DA’s R.F.D. Washington (“Biggest Multi-Tap Bar in DC!”) - 810 7th Street NW, right around the corner from Tony Cheng’s and half-block north of Metro’s Gallery Place-Chinatown Station on the Red Line. All draft beer will be half-price, compliments of DCALS. Speaker and program to be announced.

June 14, 2013 . . . MSS Seminar & Crab Feast, at Chesapeake College, St. Michaels MD.

July 3, 2013 . . . DCALS Board of Directors meeting, DCRA Third-Floor Conference Room E-380, 1100 4th Street SW, 5:30 pm.

August 7, 2013 . . . DCALS Board of Directors meeting, DCRA Third-Floor Conference Room E-380, 1100 4th Street SW, 5:30 pm.

 August 28-31, 2013 . . . “Surveyors Rendezvous 2013,” hosted by Surveyors Historical Society in and around the Historic Area of Philadelphia. Land surveyors, astronomers and history buffs from all across America and Great Britain will gather at Philadelphia to mark the lost grave of colonial-era surveyor & astronomer Charles Mason --- who, with English colleague Jeremiah Dixon, laid out the Mason-Dixon Line in the 1760s. Mason’s grave will be marked with an authentic stone from the famous Line he surveyed. A second highlight of Rendezvous 2013 will be a pilgrimage to one of the Holy Grails of American land surveying --- “Stargazer’s Stone” in remote Chester County, PA --- where Mason & Dixon established latitude and longitude from the stars and began chaining their measurements. There, the actual spot of Mason & Dixon’s 1764 astronomical observatory --- their true ‘Stargazing’ point --- which was unknown until recently, will be marked for history.

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Overview,  Detailed

September 4, 2013 . . . DCALS Board of Directors meeting, DCRA Third-Floor Conference Room E-380, 1100 4th Street SW, 5:30 pm.

September 18, 2013 . . . DCALS 13th Annual Installation-of-Officers Banquet, at Maggiano’s Little Italy, 5333 Wisconsin Avenue NW, in Friendship Heights DC. Twelfth president Joe Afful will pass the DCALS gavel to incoming 2014 president Vince Costanzi. Guest speaker and program to be announced.

September 21, 2013 . . . “The Big Build,” National Building Museum’s all-day family festival of “Tools, Trucks and Building Arts.” Every year, the construction trades of Washington join together to put on a huge, fun, carnival-type event for thousands of kids, parents, scouts and students. DCALS always participates, hosting a display of interesting items staffed by volunteer surveyors . . . and promoting our profession to the next generation.

October 2, 2013 . . . DCALS Board of Directors meeting, DCRA Third-Floor Conference Room E-380, 1100 4th Street SW, 5:30 pm.

October 10-12, 2013 . . . MSS Annual Fall Conference, Ocean City, Maryland.

November 1, 2013 . . . DCALS All-Day Seminar, “ADVANCED DC LAND SURVEYING,”  at Gallaudet University Conference Center, 800 Florida Avenue NE, Washington DC. This 8-hour session, covering new material never before presented, will deal with advanced complexities of Washington DC Boundary Surveying, gained from real-life experience by DCSO staffers and Registered DC Land Surveyors. Basic topics, such as Tax Lots and subdivisions, will be presumed known and not covered. Subject matter for this seminar will be advanced theory, ‘law and practice,’ research, actual cases, and newly-discovered information about District of Columbia boundary surveying. This is the seminar DCALS has always wanted and needed --- but never had . . . until now.

November 6, 2013 . . . DCALS Board of Directors meeting, DCRA Third-Floor Conference Room E-380, 1100 4th Street SW, 5:30 pm.

December 4, 2013 . . . DCALS Board of Directors meeting, DCRA Third-Floor Conference Room E-380, 1100 4th Street SW, 5:30 pm.

December 11, 2013 . . . DCALS Gala Holiday Banquet, at Clyde’s of Gallery Place, 707 Seventh Street NW, 6:00 pm. Program and topic to be announced.

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