Need Help Id'ing A Benchmark

[+KA7CJH]

I went out riding my dirtbike yesturday, and found a benchmark by

accident. Many many times I have ridden past it and never noticed it.

So this time I stopped and checked it out. It is stamped "US General

Land Office Survey 1942". But the worst thing i did was not save the

coordinates of it's spot with my GPS. And I can't seem to find it

listed in the benchmark section over on Geocaching.com.

 

This area is East of the Reno/Stead airfield located North of Reno,Nv.

 

However I did find the general area on a TerraServer map. So here

are the general coordinates Lat-39.6922498 Long- -119.81260 ..

 

I will try and upload a few images of it into the photos so

you can check it out, and hopefully help me ID it.

 

Photos have been uploaded here, http://www.qsl.net/ka7cjh/benchmark/

Thanks in advance,, Chris (KA7CJH)

Edited May 9, 2005 by KA7CJH

[Z15]

Its not a Bench Mark but Section Corner, land boundry etc.

 

Land is divided into 1 mile squares called sections and those sections are gouped into 36 mile squares called townships.

 

Lots of info to be found (google it) f you need to know more. I foudn this image below right away....

 

Here is a link I found to where I got the image below, its PDF

 

MAP

 

This is hard to read, did not scan well but should help..

Edited May 9, 2005 by Z15

[+BuckBrooke]

To add a little to Z15's post, what you found is not in the Geocaching database, which is 99% of the stations/benchmarks that are in the NGS database, which only includes a portion of the marks/stations around the nation. There are two items here in Albuquerque that I can use as illustration.

 

In Albuquerque we have disk placed by the:

United States Geodetic Survey (USGS)

Coast and Geodetic Survey (CGS)

National Geodetic Survey (NGS)

New Mexico Highway Department (NMHD, now NMDOT)

City of Albuquerque

Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Bureau of Reclamation (BOR)

US Engineers (the US Army Corps of Engineers) (USE)

etc.

 

Obviously, the most disks in the city come from the City of Albuquerque surveying office, that has 3,000 vertical or horizontal control stations in Albuquerque that have some form of disc. Only ~75 of them are in the NGS->Geocaching database. The NMHD has about a hundred in the city, most of which are in the databases. Etc.

 

I was out this weekend looking for the oldest least recovered stations in NM, that are suprisingly near the city. I looked at the USGS topographical maps, which list a string of elevation, and maybe horizontal, stations on the map. I looked for them, thinking they were these 1905 stations I was after. Two of them (and presumably the rest) were 1958 discs, definitely not in the database. I'm hoping they aren't replacements for the discs I was looking for.

 

Thus, a few thoughts on discs not in the database. Eventually we'll get this topic pinned, or people will read the FAQ, or somesuch thing.

Edited May 9, 2005 by BuckBrooke