This is a supplement to Patty Winter's Disney Benchmarks Page, which locates and describes every reported Disney survey marker.
This page is a comprehensive list of every known type of Disney survey marker.
Disneyland survey monument cover
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Size: 9" diameter (22.9 cm diameter)
Location: Disneyland
There are only 2 known survey monument covers. The cover has a hole, but it cannot be lifted with a finger. There probably is a survey rod or disk underneath the cover.
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Size: 3.25" diameter (8.3 cm diameter)
Location: Disneyland
This is the older, larger disk used in California. There were 4 known disks of this type, but 3 have been destroyed. Disney is not installing this type of disk anymore. Only 1 known disk of this type can still be found.
Disneyland Resort survey marker disk
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Size: 2.5" diameter (6.4 cm diameter)
Location: Disneyland, California Adventure, Downtown Disney
This is the newer, smaller disk used in California. Disney recently destroyed some older, larger disks at Disneyland and installed new disks of this type.
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Size: unknown
Location: unknown
This is reportedly the oldest disk used in Florida. This type of disk reportedly has Mickey in the usual place, "WED Survey Marker" across the top, and "Reedy Creek Improvement District" across the bottom. There may be 3 disks of this type, but none of them have been found yet.
Walt Disney World survey marker disk
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Size: 3.25??" diameter (8.3?? cm diameter)
Location: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, MGM Studios, Animal Kingdom,
Typhoon Lagoon, BoardWalk Inn, BoardWalk Villas, Fort Wilderness, Wide World
of Sports, Transportation & Ticket Center
This is the older, larger disk used in Florida. There are two variants of this type. The older variant does not have any words under the Mickey. The newer variant has "Walt Disney Company" under the Mickey. Disney does not seem to be installing either of these variants anymore.
There are 2 disks of this type at Epcot that look quite different. They appear to be the usual metal disks with some sort of textured coating. They are the older variant without any words under the Mickey.
Walt Disney World Resort survey marker disk
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Size: 3.25??" diameter (8.3?? cm diameter)
Location: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, MGM Studios, Grand Floridian,
Polynesian, BoardWalk Inn, BoardWalk Villas
This is the newer, larger disk used in Florida. The wording is different and "Walt Disney" is in script. Disney has recently been installing new disks of this type.
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Size: 1.75" diameter (4.4 cm diameter)
Location: Epcot, MGM Studios, Fort Wilderness
This is the smaller disk used in Florida. Only 6 disks of this type have been found so far, but there are reportedly many more.
Disneyland survey nail and washer
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Size: 0.75" diameter (1.9 cm diameter)
Location: Disneyland (Dumbo)
This is an older type of nail used in California. The identifier used on the washer is consistent with older disks that have since been destroyed. Only 1 nail and washer of this type has been found.
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Size: ??" diameter (?? cm diameter)
Location: Blizzard Beach
PBS&J is a Florida-based engineering consulting firm. Parker-Kalon survey nails are a commercial off-the-shelf product. Only 2 nails and washers of this type have been found.
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Size: ??" diameter (?? cm diameter)
Location: Disneyland (Anaheim Resort Transit System Hub)
This is an older type of nail used in California. Parker-Kalon survey nails are a commercial off-the-shelf product. Only 1 nail has been found.
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Size: 0.9375" diameter (2.4 cm diameter)
Location: Disneyland (Club Buzz, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Big
Thunder Ranch)
This is a newer type of nail used in California. Mag survey nails are a commercial off-the-shelf product. The nails are magnetic so they can be located easier with a metal detector.
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Size: varies
Location: Magic Kingdom (Main Street), Epcot (Guest Information
Board, Club Cool, Test Track, The Living Seas, The Land), MGM Studios
(entrance), Animal Kingdom (Expedition Everest), Blizzard Beach, Typhoon
Lagoon, Transportation & Ticket Center, Downtown Disney
A variety of scribed marks have been found in Florida. Although marks like these could be almost anything, someone has actually seen a surveyor using the Epcot marks for surveying. These marks are classified as temporary because they have been observed to become worn out under foot traffic.
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Size: 1.375" diameter (3.5 cm diameter)
Location: Disneyland (Sleeping Beauty Castle)
This appears to be a spike or disk. It is often said that this object is a survey marker that marks the original geographic center of Disneyland. Disney tour guides do say this, but cast members are frequently wrong. There are at least two sources that claim that this marker is not and never was the center of Disneyland. Michelle Smith (The Fabulous Disney Babe) reports information from the late David Mumford (Disney Imagineer) and Ish.Kabibel reports information from Dave Smith (Disney Archivist). Dave Smith has informed me that there is currently no consensus at Walt Disney Imagineering as to the purpose of this marker. I am continuing to investigate and hope to find solid primary references. If you know of any Disney publications that mention this marker, please let me know.
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Size: 1.3125", 1.375", 1.875" diameter (3.3, 3.5, 4.8 cm
diameter)
Location: Disneyland (Frontierland, Big Thunder
Trail, Petrified Tree)
These unidentified disks look very similar to the covers for the holes for queue poles. Unlike rubber queue pole hole covers, these disks are metal. Unlike rounded survey marker disks, these disks are flat. Only 3 disks of this type have been found. Perhaps most peculiar is that all 3 disks are different sizes. Currently, there are different opinions about these objects. Some people think that these objects are survey markers. Some people think that these objects might be an unusual kind of queue pole hole cover. A confidential Disney source thinks these objects might be foundation markers. Like the castle marker, this probably cannot be resolved without solid information from Disney.
Please send any comments or corrections regarding this page to Lloyd Lee-Lim <ltleelim@mail.limunltd.com>.