Is this a benchmark?

[+Yak127]

Thought I lucked out finding this while summiting Butternut Mountain in Johnson, Vermont, but didn’t see anything on the website correlating to this. Is this a benchmark or just some sort of lookalike? If it is one, can someone help me identify so I can log it? Thank you!!

[Lynx Humble]

Yeah it is a benchmark but only a small percentage are on the geocaching website.

[+Max and 99]

1 hour ago, Yak127 said:

Thought I lucked out finding this while summiting Butternut Mountain in Johnson, Vermont, but didn’t see anything on the website correlating to this. Is this a benchmark or just some sort of lookalike? If it is one, can someone help me identify so I can log it? Thank you!!

On first glance, in the general area, I did not see a waymark for this benchmark. You could document it yourself!

Edit:

This is the closest waymark benchmark  I found:

https://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/wm70K6_The_Chin_Mount_Mansfield_Underhill_Vermont

Edited June 22, 2021 by Max and 99

[foxtrot_xray]

As stated in other areas of this forum, n a very small percentage of USGS marks are in the NGS database. (GC here has a copy of the NGS database.) So, you can waymark it, or kist save your pictures for a cool find. :)

[Z15]

from a post years ago

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), an agency in the Dept. of the Interior has the responsibility for producing our national topographic maps. They completed the monumental task of complete national mapping of the 1:24,000 scale map series (about 55,000 maps) in the early 1990's. USGS would often set survey monuments to help "control" the map. Maps are produced from aeronautical photos mosaiced together. In order to provide accurate location, orientation, scale and elevation to a flat map of a curved surface, it is required to have numerous points that can be identified on the photographs for which the coordinates/elevations are well known. The marks set by USGS were a vital part of this operation. In the days when mapping surveys were conducted primarily by line-of-site methods, these marks helped save money by helping to ensure a network that cartographers could rely on for mapping update procedures. With the rapid developments in surveying and mapping technology, especially GPS, USGS sees little need to setting new marks or maintaining the old networks. Unfortunately the data for tens of thousands of these marks set by USGS were never submitted to NGS for inclusion in the National Spatial Reference System. Due to major reductions in staff and the changing nature of mapping requirements, it is highly unlikely that USGS will ever automate these data.