Llyod L. Jensen served as Walworth County’s surveyor from 1933-1999. Born in Lennox, SD, he graduated from Michigan Tech in 1931, worked in Colorado as a mining engineer until fall of 1931 and moved to Elkhorn in November, 1931. He also owned Jensen & Johnson Engineering Company from 1947-1976 with Herbert Johnson. Those who knew Mr. Jensen often commented on how active he was. Many times, it was said that at age 80 he could out-walk guys in their 40’s. During his 66 years of service, he brought expertise and an apparently limitless energy to the office of County Surveyor. In 1933, Mr. Jensen began standardizing the myriad of objects that had been used to mark sections in the county, including wood post, iron rods, and axle shafts. Long concrete posts topped with brass cans were buried in the ground and became the county standard.
It is difficult to talk about Mr. Jensen without mentioning the extensive work on the county wide remonumentation project. The project began in 1992 and resulted in 2,679 survey markers throughout Walworth County being physically located, resurveyed and replaced. These markers are used for the computerized Geographic Information System (GIS), which supports a number of applications, including interactive mapping. Mr. Jensen personally completed remonumentation of much of the southwestern portion of the county prior to retiring in 1998. Sadly, Mr. Jensen passed away in 2005, just a few months before the project, which he started, was completed.
