Is this actually a benchmark?

[+Squadtech]

Hi,

 

Quick question. The other day I was at a national park here in VA and I found what appeared to be a benchmark type disk in the ground, but I can't find it listed anywhere.

 

Around the outside edge it says "US Deptartment of Interior - National Park Service"

 

and it has the number "850HV04002" and "Unlawful to Remove" stamped in the center.

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Herb

[+Ernmark]

..did you happen to get the coords? There are thousands of benchmarks that aren't in the database that GC obtained from NGS, so you could have found one of them - If you have a pic you could upload so people here could take a look at any other add'l stamping, etc...

[+jwahl]

It may be a BM, but is also likely to be a surveyed boundary marker. The coordinate would allow one to figure that out a little better.

 

- jlw

 

..did you happen to get the coords? There are thousands of benchmarks that aren't in the database that GC obtained from NGS, so you could have found one of them - If you have a pic you could upload so people here could take a look at any other add'l stamping, etc...

[+Squadtech]

Here is a picture:

 

 

and here are the coordinates:

 

N 38˚ 59’07.5”

W077˚ 14’49.0”

 

and hear is a picture from Google Maps:

 

Google Map View

Edited August 13, 2006 by Squadtech

[+Black Dog Trackers]

Squadtech -

 

It looks like it could be a triangulation station. Someone, probably a surveyor, inscribed a triangle in the center which indicates a triangulation station.

 

In any case, you can log that in the Recovered US Benchmarks Waymarking category. There is waymark of a similar disk here, although that one is more likely a bench mark type of disk than a triangulation station disk.

[+Black Dog Trackers]

By the way, your coordinates should start with N 38 not N 39.

[+BuckBrooke]

Squadtech, it's a variation on the US Dept. of Interior National Park Service disk that I haven't seen before; I'll link to it on the US Agencies list once you've Waymarked it. Thanks for the recovery!

[sixthings]

There are gozillions (well, dozens) of DOI-NPS disk in Wash DC and in VA and MD along the Potomac in the National Parks upsteam of Wash DC, and 99.99% of those disks are NOT in either the Geocaching or NGS databases.

 

See, for example:

 

USDI-NPS waymark

[+Squadtech]

There are gozillions (well, dozens) of DOI-NPS disk in Wash DC and in VA and MD along the Potomac in the National Parks upsteam of Wash DC, and 99.99% of those disks are NOT in either the Geocaching or NGS databases.

 

See, for example:

 

USDI-NPS waymark

 

OK, thanks for the info.

 

So, should this disk be logged anywhere?

[+Black Dog Trackers]

Squadtech-

 

Yes, see my note above, about the Recovered US Benchmarks category.

[+Squadtech]

Squadtech-

 

Yes, see my note above, about the Recovered US Benchmarks category.

 

I guess if I took the time to read and comprehend, it would help out a little!

 

Thanks!