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  1. Then there is the mark which has been almost completely covered with a metal base for railroad crossing lights. KY1041 was set in the concrete base for the original crossing lights.
  2. Quite a few interesting locations for marks here. Here's one inside a restaurant: MB1057. The former railroad station with the mark in the outside wall is now a larger building with the original wall with the mark now located inside the building in an open dining area. You can also see the mark by looking through the window.
  3. Plenty of activity in AZ--only two more counties and the entire state will be at the max(color-wise, anyway)! Can't get enough of the maps and numbers--keep up the good work, Jim.
  4. If you don't feel confident enough to interact with a property owner, stay with the marks along public rights-of-way. Just watch out for traffic!
  5. Knight 2000, I have found quite a few benchmarks in Akron and many of them are in the street. The picture of the cover you have is a typical cover from 1963, even though the cover is not dated. Sometimes Akron marks are under standard sized manhole covers as well. Many of the marks say "U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey and The City Of Akron" on them. shorbird
  6. shorbird

    Logging issue

    Sometimes when I post a log, it disappears instead of posting. I then have to retype my input, at which point the log usually posts. I am running Windows XP with the latest version of Firefox(it does the same thing with Internet Explorer).
  7. The latest maps and numbers!! Always look forward to them. Thanks.
  8. I recently recovered an unusual combination of related benchmarks--a triangulation station, 2 Reference Marks, and an azimuth mark, all set in different years. The triangulation station, TR0593, is a USC&GS disk set in 1955. Reference Mark 1, TR0594, is a USC&GS disk set in 1931. Reference Mark 2, TR1726, is a metal plate screwed to a concrete post set by the US Engineers in 1923. The azimuth mark, TR1741, is a NGS disk set in 1977. Usually, all four related marks are set at the same time by the same agency. In this case, the reference marks were set by two different agencies at two different times and neither mark was originally designated as a reference mark. The azimuth mark is a replacement for an earlier azimuth mark. Has anyone else found such an unusual combination?
  9. Here's a chiseled square in a railroad culvert in Salem, Ohio. KY1044 includes the chiseled letters B M. Next is a chiseled circle(MA1125) in a corner stone of the Forest County Courthouse in Tionesta, Pa. Notice the elevation chiseled into the front of the stone, with the circle on the top left of the stone.
  10. You just never know when they're going to update the datasheets. We appreciate your going in there and running the totals just to see if they are significant enough to update the maps and county totals. As always, I'm looking forward to the next updated maps.
  11. Glad to see that they're all caught up! And many thanks to you, Jim, for rerunning the program. Sure is great to see the new maps!
  12. Started out geocaching in 2005, but after finding most of the geocaches within x number of miles, I became curious about the benchmarking area of the website. My first find was MB0736, which I found on my lunchtime from work. I enjoy the search, the different areas I've looked in, and the historical angle as well(found a disk from 1903 near my house). By logging with the NGS, I like the idea of helping surveyors to know which marks are still around and what condition they're in. As far as I'm concerned, this is a lifelong interest, and I can't wait to get out in the field again!
  13. Thanks for the update. Let's hope that the NGS backlog is resolved soon.
  14. Don't know about the USGS, but I have seen recoveries of NGS disks which were set in Sonoma County, CA in 2008.
  15. Unable to participate because of scheduling conflict, but still interested in the material. Will there be a summary of the points discussed available afterwards?
  16. Thanks for updating the maps and data. Guess we'll see most of November's recoveries the next time. Have a good holiday season.
  17. Sounds like a great day! Love all of those "older" marks that were still there! I followed a 1935 line along an old RR recently and they were all DNFs except for the one which was "found destroyed" with the post out of the ground.
  18. Thanks again for your diligence in keeping our maps and stats current. Just love to see those maps!!
  19. George, Many of the more serious benchmark hunters will be thankful for your cookbook. Some of the newbies may be amazed by so much information, but it would be nice to have fewer "false destruction" reports and incorrect "found" reports. Thanks for your efforts. shorbird
  20. Last Saturday I had the pleasure of finding not only a tri-station and its two reference marks, but also the three associated stone posts which were set by the US Lake Service in 1877. The station itself MC1102 was set flush in a woods, close to its witness post. RM1 projected 4 inches and was close by. RM2 took a tape and shovel to locate. It is flush in a boulder and almost covered by a large tree root. I love to find the older stone posts, since they harken back to an earlier time. Two of the three were in excellent condition, while the third had been almost split in half. It's always good to find a mark whose last log is "Not Found," but it's a thrill to find the older marks as well.
  21. Thanks once again for updating the maps and the numbers. I always look forward to seeing the newest results!
  22. LSUFan, I will add my name to the list of those who would definitely include the coordinates for the azimuth mark in the NGS report. Any piece of information which could be useful, such as the coordinates, should be included in the report. BTW, your closeup shots of the CQ2730 disks were excellent. Keep up the good work!
  23. My latest "good day" benchmarking resulted in no finds at all, but it did result in a sunny day out in the woods with my English Springer Spaniel, Jagger. The coordinates for two of the stations I searched for were out in the nearby lake, but I still looked along the shoreline just in case the coordinates were off. Another mark location was in the middle of a campground which had been obviously regraded since the monumentation date. And a previous log for the last one I searched for said that a local resident had moved the mark, but I thought I should check, anyway. While looking for one mark, I met a park ranger who showed me another mark 3 miles away which looked similar to the ones I was seeking, but it was unstamped and not in the database. I mentioned to him that I might log it on the Waymarking website, but he said that he would appreciate it if I wouldn't, since he has seen so much vandalism of marks in his area. Even though there were no "finds" that day, I had an interesting talk with the park ranger and a great day with my dog.
  24. Lots of activity in AZ! Always look forward to seeing the latest maps. Thanks again.
  25. Yes, this is a very interesting case. As you mentioned, the disk you found is obviously a reset which did not make it into the database. I have noticed that the usual NGS practice is to assign a new PID to any reset mark. For that reason, and because the disk was not the spike described in the datasheet, I would have logged QK0775 as not found. I notice that the Power Squadron logged the station as found in 1995, which means that they found the reset disk. I wonder what Deb would have to say about this?
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