W4REZ Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 What's the strangest benchmark designation you've found? I recovered one yesterday named 'SHEEP' although I could see no current reason for it to be named thusly. During benchmark research I found another one named 'MOM' but it was named that way because there was once a restaurant adjacent to it named 'Mom's Diner' or something like that. Today I also found one named 'DEVIL', a rather new one at that (1999) but could find no reason for it to be named that way. Jeff Workman | jworkman@pimpworks.org | http://www.pimpworks.org Quote Link to comment
ArtMan Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 There's one in Northern Virginia called VETTE. No, not what you think. What is now a super market used to be the site of a long-defunct discount store called E.J. Korvette, which incidentally refers to its founders - Eight/Eleven Jewish Korean [War] Veterans. It was last recovered in the '60s, as I recall, and it was a poorly described nail or spike in a 10-acre parking lot, so I don't think it's likely to be recovered any time soon. Quote Link to comment
survey tech Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 Points were named by the crews who set them and many were named after crew members, their wives, their girlfriends, etc. Most however were logically named after some local geographic feature, the landowner, or some nearby outpost or hamlet. The main criteria was that the name had to be short enough to fit on the disk, so many longer words were split up between 2 or more stations, resulting in what seems like nonsense until you link them together. For example, a series of points set along a ridge in a mountain range named "Serpentine", might be named "Ser", "Pen" and "Tine". Quote Link to comment
+Web-ling Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 I think they named CS2907 after Jeremy... Quote Link to comment
iryshe Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Web-ling:I think they named (link) after Jeremy... The stability description fits... "May hold, but of type commonly subject to surface motion." Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location Quote Link to comment
+GatoRx Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 I was looking at the benchmarks around northeast Georgia today and came across this one ED1926 The name for it is "GUMLOG". I'd like to go find it, but the description mentions lots of dirt/gravel roads, and locked gates. Quote Link to comment
+rdw Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 GD1264 - Set in the top of the south headwall of the DRINKWATER SEWER FLOODGATE Umm? Okay. rdw Quote Link to comment
+gnbrotz Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 I found one designated LIGHT RED DOLPHIN Greg N 39 54.705' W 77 33.137' Quote Link to comment
+rogbarn Posted September 1, 2002 Share Posted September 1, 2002 Yesterday, I went to find JC1600. This is one of those landmarks and not a benchmark that had a designation made up for it. And in the first and only history on this one in 1871, it really was an insane asylum. It is now a state mental hospital and I got questioned for entering the grounds and taking pictures. Still, it's a neat one to get after so long a time. Quote Link to comment
+Udink Posted September 3, 2002 Share Posted September 3, 2002 Not surprising that these names exist, but: Ford, Chevy, and Dodge. Quote Link to comment
azog Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 I found one named nonsense. ---------- One banana, two banana, three banana, four. Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more. Quote Link to comment
Huaso Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 One I recovered is marked FOOL. This was my second found and submitted for recovery, but the only one entered here (so far). Quote Link to comment
+flask Posted April 29, 2003 Share Posted April 29, 2003 there's a set near st. johnsbury VT called DOLE, NIXON, and KISSINGER. and in henesburg VT there are BAMBI and THUMPER. it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. Quote Link to comment
Circum Posted April 29, 2003 Share Posted April 29, 2003 ...and in NJ we have PICKLE. Dates from 1876 and named for the family that owned the property. A little about one of the members here. Quote Link to comment
Wild T2 Posted April 30, 2003 Share Posted April 30, 2003 Other automobile names include... Still in business are Buick, Cadillac, Plymouth, Lincoln, & Pontiac. Out of business are Auburn, Lasalle, & Eagle. The one lone import that I know of is Fiat. I am sure that there are more. Quote Link to comment
+happycycler Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 This past weekend I found ROACH (HD1219) and TICK (JD2581). I did not set out to find buggy named triangulation stations -- just looking for some in an area we were visiting. BTW the Roach name is on a very small post office across the road from HD1219 and there are some Roach headstones in the cemetery near the azimuth mark for HD1219. I do not know anything else about TICK.... Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 WHOOOO PEPE its a POLECAT GF0872 THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE FOREST DOES NOT EVEN LIVE THERE*********WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS*GEOTRYAGAIN **1803-2003 "LOUSIANA PURCHASE" 200TH ANNIVERSARY AND THE "LEWIS AND CLARK EXPADITION" http://www.lapurchase.org http://www.msnusers.com/MissouriTrails Quote Link to comment
pezking Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 Good Morning http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=PN0484 Good and http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=PN0489 Morning. Or http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=PN0488 Night. [This message was edited by pezking on May 19, 2003 at 01:16 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+beatnik Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 quote:Originally posted by N8RZI:What's the strangest benchmark designation you've found? I had a really good laugh when two of the members of our local group showed up at a meeting and we started talking about benchmarks. They were excited to announce they had not only found, but saved MARS. -beatnik- Quote Link to comment
zdv Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 I decided to hike Whiskey Mountain in Idaho, which happens to have BM Whiskey on top (OH1363, not listed on this site). I was somewhat amused to notice a nearby hill is marked with BM Jack! Also, a friend told me he was looking at some maps somewhere and noticed a "Republican Mountain" with BM Democrat on top, or maybe vice versa. I didn't confirm that but it suggests at least some surveyors enjoy leaving a little humor behind.. Quote Link to comment
Z15 Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 SG0178 DESIGNATION - BUMBLETOWN MIGS 1934 SG0178 HISTORY - Date Condition Report By SG0178 HISTORY - 1934 MONUMENTED MIGS SG0178 HISTORY - 20010823 GOOD MIDT I know a guy who was born there in the 1930's, he showed me his birth certificate with place of birth = Bumbletown Quote Link to comment
+emike Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Here's one that I find appropriate for our sport. No matter how many marks we hunt and find, no matter how tired we get there always room for one more. Especially this one. KZ1780 JELLO http://img.Groundspeak.com/benchmark/lg/38225_100.jpg http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=KZ1780 EMike "It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts." Quote Link to comment
AE5D Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Take a look at the datasheet for BN0607 and read the original 1956 Station Description. I was in the area two weeks ago and should have taken a picture of this one, because I'm sure Political Correctness will lead to the renaming of this mark someday soon. Quote Link to comment
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