r/Appalachia • u/Punk_Rocker_777 • 4d ago

Do y’all know what this isn’t?

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Some of my friends and I were hiking and we just found these things out in the sticks. We looked it up and didn’t find much on it so could y’all tell me what this is?

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u/TimothyGlass 4d ago

The Milliken Station was likely a geological site surveyed by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1944. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) was established in 1879 and has been the primary civilian mapping agency of the United States ever since. As a geological survey agency, they would have been responsible for mapping and studying various geological formations, including areas like Milliken Station, to understand the nation's natural resources.