Very cool benchmarks

[+EraSeek]

Here's an example of a very cool one posted by MickyD. There are some interesting ones out there.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=HU1800

 

[iryshe]

Gee. I never new this existed!

 

 

Jeremy Irish

Groundspeak - The Language of Location

[iryshe]

Gee. I never new this existed!

 

 

Jeremy Irish

Groundspeak - The Language of Location

[+MapLady]

I went to my favorite Benchmark today to see if I could get an interesting picture. This weekend a Fine Arts Festival is in the Public Square of Wilkes-Barre, PA where the benchmark is located on top of a 3 foot monument. It was under the tent where the judged artwork was displayed. I put my Magellan upright on top of the monument while I was writing down the engraving on the monument sides. A woman walked up and I took it away and said "Excuse me". She looked at me and said she thought it (the Magellan and the monument) was a sculpture exhibit! I'll post pictures after I get them back.

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=LY143

[+MapLady]

Oops! Let's try that link again!

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=LY1435

[+MICKYD]

FINDING THE MASON-DIXON LINE MONUMENTS WAS TRULEY A RUSH FOR ME. IN 1763 CHARLES MASON AND JEREMIAH DIXON,TWO ENGLISH SURVEYORS,WERE CALLED IN TO SETTLE A BOUNDRY DISPUTE BETWEEN THE STATES OF MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANNIA. THE SURVEY WAS COMPLETED IN 1767 AND HAS BEEN KNOW AS THE MASON-DIXON LINE EVER SINCE. THE SURVEYORS SET UP MILESTONES TO MARK THE BOUNDRY.OVER THE YEARS SOUVENIR HUNTERS REMOVED MANY OF THE STONES, ALTHOUGH AUTHORITIES WERE ABLE TO RECOVER MANY OF THEM. THE LINE HAS REMAINED AT PARALLEL OF N39DEGREES 43MINUTES 26.3 SECONDS. AS CACHERS WE ARE ALL INTERESTED IN NAVIGATING WITH OUR GPS', I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT MR MASON AND MR DIXON, IF ALIVE TODAY, WOULD BE A GEOCACHER, ENJOYING IN OUR SEARCH FOR BENCHMARKS AND CACHES. THANKS MICKYD

[+GeoScouter]

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Originally posted by EraSeek:

Here's an example of a very cool one posted by MickyD. There are some interesting ones out there.

 

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That is cool looking. I find a similar one in the park by our Capital. It has a date of 1877 on the base.

 

Benchmark

 

Steve

 

GeoScouter

[Night Tracker]

Steve, What is a mexican monument doing in Pa. I didn't know mexicans went that far north. Historicaly it was the western states....

[+Alan2]

I made this benchmark a virtual cache back in November. Now that there is official benchmark caching, am I suppose to do something to change to an "orange" page or leave it the way it is or something else?

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=10814

 

Alan

[+Web-ling]

quote:

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Originally posted by Alan2:

I made this benchmark a virtual cache back in November. Now that there is official benchmark caching, am I suppose to do something to change to an "orange" page or leave it the way it is or something else?

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=10814

 

Alan

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I vote to leave it. Benchmarking and geocaching are entirely separate games.

 

[+travisl]

This benchmark is "located at Sea-Tac International Airport at the W end of runway 16L-34R"

 

And the description is kind enough to tell you who to contact to get access: "Contact the airport manager at 206-431-4026 to arrange access to the airport."

 

Who's gonna try it?

 

"If a boy has enough intelligence, he ought to go into the ministry, except that if when he enters college he is given to carousing, drinking, and wenching, then in that case he should enter the law." - Harvard Student Review, 1796

[+ProStreet]

I wonder how old this Bench Mark is. http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=NG0265

The light house was built in 1866.

[+Forest Engineer & Sunny Daze]

I suggest that *Benchmark Hunting* be renamed *Survey Mon Hunting* (mon = monument), or something else which would be more inclusive than *Benchmark Hunting.* Monuments other than benchmarks which could be searched include: triangulation mons (elevation may not be given or may be only to the nearest 10 meters), state boundary mons, international boundary mons, and the Willamette Stone (initial point for the Willamette Meridian and Base Line, 45°31'11"N, 122°44'34"W, from which the U.S. Rectangular Survey of Oregon and Washington commenced).

 

I'm getting excited [] about searching for International Boundary Monuments along the boundary between Washington State and Canada! In past years I've done research, mapping and intensive calculations for international boundary monuments along the north line of Whatcom County--south line of British Columbia. I was never in the field to actually find one of these monuments.

 

Forest Engineer[8D]

 

Kaneloa[8D]("Tall Man")

[+Forest Engineer & Sunny Daze]

I suggest that *Benchmark Hunting* be renamed *Survey Mon Hunting* (mon = monument), or something else which would be more inclusive than *Benchmark Hunting.* Monuments other than benchmarks which could be searched include: triangulation mons (elevation may not be given or may be only to the nearest 10 meters), state boundary mons, international boundary mons, and the Willamette Stone (initial point for the Willamette Meridian and Base Line, 45°31'11"N, 122°44'34"W, from which the U.S. Rectangular Survey of Oregon and Washington commenced).

 

I'm getting excited [] about searching for International Boundary Monuments along the boundary between Washington State and Canada! In past years I've done research, mapping and intensive calculations for international boundary monuments along the north line of Whatcom County--south line of British Columbia. I was never in the field to actually find one of these monuments.

 

Forest Engineer[8D]

 

Kaneloa[8D]("Tall Man")

[+nscaler]

The lighthouse may be old but there may be no way to tell how old.

[+MICKYD]

I had the prevelidge of logging a benchmark at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland where Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the Star Spangled Banner. The actual bm is a replica of the flagstaff which Francis Scott Key could see from the British ship he was on.

 

see [jv5557]

 

MICKYD

[+Web-ling]

I thought this one was cool enough to make into a virtual cache.

 

[+pkpaul]

This is similar to Mason-Dixon line BM and it's not in the database, but its in the NRHP database, see http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/VA/Fairfax/state.html.

Very cool. I made a virtual out of it, see http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=26497 , GC6781.

 

And then there is the Zero Milestone BM, I logged this today, see http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=HV1847 HV1846.

PKPaul.

 

[This message was edited by pkpaul on July 14, 2002 at 06:26 PM.]

[+makaio]

There are apparently many of these monumented on the abundance of offshore outcroppings, most of which don't appear to easy to get to and haven't been recovered for many years.

 

Haystock Rock

 

Pinnacle Rock

 

Large Rock off Arch Cape

 

Falcon Rock

 

Large Rock off Carlton

 

These were just a few found within a 20 mile radius search of Cannon Beach, OR

 

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[+makaio]

TOP OF MAST OF BEACHED SHIP

 

Here are some pics of the ship during it's heyday, beached with the mast, and more recently in 1999 showing what's left of it.

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[jayhawk999]

travis:

This monument you were looking for is most likely a PACS or SACS, a primary or secondary airport control station, and most of the PACS are very close to mostly active runways. You need very specific official reasons to get next to one obviously. This are used for precise surveys to generate navigation data for landing.

We recently tried to get to DX3328 in Fullerton, California but were told rather pointedly "not on my aerodrome" and we had some semi-official reason.

[+Web-ling]

How about a survey disk on the roof of a mausoleum? (I haven't tried this one yet.)

 

[+infosponge]

There's quite a few of these "guano platforms" listed in the local database:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=AL0804

 

Assuming they're still there, I'm not sure I'd want to find them.

[+infosponge]

There's quite a few of these "guano platforms" listed in the local database:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=AL0804

 

Assuming they're still there, I'm not sure I'd want to find them.

[+The Cheeseheads]

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Originally posted by ProStreet:

I wonder how old this Bench Mark is. http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=NG0265

The light house was built in 1866.

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Here ya' go...

 

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Wisconsin Geocaching Association

[+Sherricandace]

Another oddity for benchmarks: There is a mark on the top of the water tank that serves the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, MI. Obviously, I could not photograph it--I could not even get close to the tower. If you are not a registered guest, you pay $10.00 just to be on the property, and after 6 pm, only registered guests are allowed on the road that leads to the hotel....so poking around the back of the hotel was a real no-no!

[walkerk]

This one looks pretty cool. Who will log it first?

 

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/News/LewisClark/

[Cholo]

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Originally posted by walkerk:

This one looks pretty cool. Who will log it first?

 

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/News/LewisClark/

 

The better question is "what will be the PID and when will it be in the database?". Until then, the answer is nobody. Then again, it's not what you know, but who you......

[+Thack Pack]

 

This is on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, NC. I have no idea when the benchmark was changed to this.

[+Thallas]

This was found here on a decommissioned Air Force Base:

 

[survey tech]

The Corps of Engineers has done a great deal of work, particularly near major rivers, reservoirs and their tributaries, for the purpose of water resource management. Their markers are commonly found around large man made lakes.

[+Black Dog Trackers]

Here is a fancy cover for a benchmark.

 

[RangerMattNC]

I found a really neat one yesterday at the site of the "re-located" Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. I'll post a pic of it as soon as I get the film developed. The only drawback: It was placed by the North Carolina Geodetic Survey so it's not on any lists. Neat disc, though.

Coords: Zone 18S, 0451886 Easting by 3900989 Northing at >1m ASL.

Sorry for the UTM, but I'm just too tired to translate them now, besides, it's more accurate.