Pickles2011 Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 I have come into possession of a US C&GS benchmark that has been removed from it's original location. No, I didn't remove it....someone else did. My father would have killed me if I had..........he was a forest ranger in his younger years. I would enclose a picture of it but don't see a way to attach one. It has the following markings V1042 and below that 1960. Can anyone tell me where it is from and what should I do with it? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I have come into possession of a US C&GS benchmark that has been removed from it's original location. No, I didn't remove it....someone else did. My father would have killed me if I had..........he was a forest ranger in his younger years. I would enclose a picture of it but don't see a way to attach one. It has the following markings V1042 and below that 1960. Can anyone tell me where it is from and what should I do with it? Thanks. I would suggest you ask that is this forum Benchmarks You should apologize for double entering if you do since it is frowned upon or you could report your own post and ask for it to be moved there. Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Is the benchmark from Texas? If so this might be it. I have no idea what you should do with it at this point. Quote Link to comment
Jayme H Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Moved this thread to Benchmarks...carry on. Quote Link to comment
mloser Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I doubt it is the one Lil Devil found. That is the only one in the database with the designation V 1042 but it was set in 1956 and the one you have is stamped 1960. There are a lot of disks that never made the NGS database, most notably a lot of CGS ones. I am not sure if you could contact them to ask. Unless it was recently removed there is probably not a lot of good in doing anything with it. I would just keep it. Quote Link to comment
+LSUFan Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I have come into possession of a US C&GS benchmark that has been removed from it's original location. No, I didn't remove it....someone else did. My father would have killed me if I had..........he was a forest ranger in his younger years. I would enclose a picture of it but don't see a way to attach one. It has the following markings V1042 and below that 1960. Can anyone tell me where it is from and what should I do with it? Thanks. It might help if you could tell what state this disk is from (if known). I tried to look at your profile to see if I could figure out which state you geocache in, but couldn't find where you had reported anything, and could only find this one forum post for that account name. Quote Link to comment
Pickles2011 Posted October 24, 2013 Author Share Posted October 24, 2013 The benchmark in question came from southern California. Thanks for the responses. Quote Link to comment
+LSUFan Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 The benchmark in question came from southern California. Thanks for the responses. Thank you, that's what we needed. The mark was reported destroyed back in 1973, and is not in the active NGS database, but you can still find it in the destroyed marks list. Probably no harm in just keeping it, but I personally can't actually give you government property. Here is the datasheet for it: NOTE - The station below is destroyed. 1 National Geodetic Survey, Retrieval Date = OCTOBER 24, 2013 EW3769 *********************************************************************** EW3769 DESIGNATION - V 1042 EW3769 PID - EW3769 EW3769 STATE/COUNTY- CA/SANTA BARBARA EW3769 COUNTRY - US EW3769 USGS QUAD - GOLETA (1988) EW3769 EW3769 *CURRENT SURVEY CONTROL EW3769 ______________________________________________________________________ EW3769* NAD 83(1986) POSITION- 34 26 30. (N) 119 47 21. (W) SCALED EW3769* NAVD 88 ORTHO HEIGHT - 28.73 (+/-2cm) 94.3 (feet) VERTCON EW3769 ______________________________________________________________________ EW3769 GEOID HEIGHT - -35.61 (meters) GEOID12A EW3769 VERT ORDER - FIRST CLASS I (See Below) EW3769 EW3769.The horizontal coordinates were scaled from a topographic map and have EW3769.an estimated accuracy of +/- 6 seconds. EW3769. EW3769.The NAVD 88 height was computed by applying the VERTCON shift value to EW3769.the NGVD 29 height (displayed under SUPERSEDED SURVEY CONTROL.) EW3769 EW3769.The vertical order pertains to the NGVD 29 superseded value. EW3769 EW3769; North East Units Estimated Accuracy EW3769;SPC CA 5 - 605,920. 1,835,590. MT (+/- 180 meters Scaled) EW3769 EW3769 SUPERSEDED SURVEY CONTROL EW3769 EW3769 NGVD 29 (??/??/92) 27.944 (m) 91.68 (f) ADJ UNCH 1 1 EW3769 EW3769.Superseded values are not recommended for survey control. EW3769 EW3769.NGS no longer adjusts projects to the NAD 27 or NGVD 29 datums. EW3769.See file dsdata.txt to determine how the superseded data were derived. EW3769 EW3769_U.S. NATIONAL GRID SPATIAL ADDRESS: 11SKU437146(NAD 83) EW3769 EW3769_MARKER: DB = BENCH MARK DISK EW3769_SETTING: 0 = UNSPECIFIED SETTING EW3769_STAMPING: V 1042 1960 EW3769_STABILITY: D = MARK OF QUESTIONABLE OR UNKNOWN STABILITY EW3769 EW3769 HISTORY - Date Condition Report By EW3769 HISTORY - 1960 MONUMENTED CGS EW3769 HISTORY - 1970 GOOD NGS EW3769 HISTORY - 1973 DESTROYED NGS EW3769 EW3769 STATION DESCRIPTION EW3769 EW3769'DESCRIBED BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1970 EW3769'1.8 MI E FROM GOLETA. EW3769'1.85 MILES EAST ALONG THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD FROM THE EW3769'STATION AT GOLETA, AT TURNPIKE ROAD OVERPASS, 14.2 FEET NORTH EW3769'OF THE NORTH RAIL, IN THE TOP AND 2.2 FEET EAST OF THE WEST EW3769'END OF THE CONCRETE FOUNDATION OF A FORMER OVERPASS, 18.4 FEET EW3769'SOUTH OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE WEST COLUMN IN THE FIRST EW3769'BENT NORTH OF THE TRACK OF THE PRESENT OVERPASS, 6 FEET EAST OF EW3769'A POINT DIRECTLY UNDER THE WEST EDGE OF THE OVERPASS, AND ABOUT EW3769'LEVEL WITH THE TRACK. EW3769 EW3769 STATION RECOVERY (1973) EW3769 EW3769'RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1973 EW3769'SURFACE MARK REPORTED DESTROYED. Quote Link to comment
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