Requirement
4. Levelling: back at the lot, with the requirement 2 markers still in place
Required Often forgotten
Use one of the corner markers from requirement 2 as a benchmark with an assumed elevation of 100 feet, then use a level and rod to collect and record measurements and determine the elevation of the other four corners. The markers have to still be there.
Notes and warnings
Warning. DO THIS IN THE SAME SESSION AS REQUIREMENT 2. The benchmark is "one of the corner markers from requirement 2", and those markers are stakes your counselor put in the ground for your field session. Requirement 3, an hour of careful drawing at a table, is numbered between the two, and following that order literally means going home, drawing a map, and coming back to a lot that may well have been cleared. Measure and level in one visit; draw afterwards.
Where this step comes from
- Surveying Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-12-31), Requirement 4 · Names requirement 2 by number: one of its corner markers becomes the benchmark.