13 Thursday May 2021
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I love benchmarks and survey markers, this one is in Santa Clara, Utah and is marking the corner of sections 10,11,14 and 15 of T43S R16W.
If you’re interesting in benchmarks, see others I’ve found here.
05 Wednesday May 2021
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Documenting more benchmarks, see the others I’ve done here.
This one is at: N 40.41504 W 111.48351
29 Thursday Apr 2021
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Benchmarks, Ogden, utah, Water Tanks, Water Towers, Weber County
Benchmark: MS0710 “OGDEN DEL MONTE FOOD PROD TANK”
N 41.22196 W 112.00279
01/01/1963 by CGS (FIRST OBSERVED)
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1963 (JCC) THE STATION IS THE CENTER OF THE TOP OF A 174 FOOT HIGH WATER TANK. IT IS ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 84 AND NEAR THE EAST END OF THE TOWN OF OGDEN.
01/01/1965 by CGS (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1965 (JJC) THE INTERSECTION STATION WAS RECOVERED. THE TANK IS PAINTED GREEN ON ITS TOP AND BOTTOM WITH THE CENTER PORTION OF THE TANK PAINTED BLACK.
01/01/1973 by NGS (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1973 (DLS) STATION RECOVERED AS DESCRIBED IN GOOD CONDITION. AIRLINE DISTANCE AND DIRECTION FROM NEAREST TOWN IN TOWN.
14 Sunday Feb 2021
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Historic Wheeler Survey Marker
In 1869 the United States Army sent First Lieutenant George M. Wheeler on a brief reconnaissance which later created the Country’s “Geographic Survey West of the One Hundredth Meridian”. This survey gave our leaders the first accurate mapping of the Western half of the Country, collecting data of the natural history, geology, geography, climate, weather and ethnology.
At Kelton, Utah
25 Friday Dec 2020
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Benchmarks, California, California Historical Landmarks, Historic Markers, San Mateo County, Woodside
Town of Searsville
Here stood the lumbermen’s village of Searsville whose first settler, John Sears, came in 1854. Across the road westerly from this monument stood a hotel. The school, store, blacksmith shop, and dwellings were to the southeast, some on the site of the present lake and others overlooking it. Buildings were removed in 1891, as water rose behind the new dam.
State Registered Landmark No. 474 (see others on this page)
Plaque placed by the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County in cooperation with the San Mateo County Historical Association.
Dedicated June 8, 1952
Location: N 37.40264 W 122.24520
(Portola Rd and Sand Hill Rd in Woodside, CA)
30 Thursday Jul 2020
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Benchmark: LP0357 “BACCHUS AF PLANT 81 TANK”
Another benchmark I’ve documented, see this link for others.
4640 S 6400 W, West Valley City, Utah
| 01/01/1962 by CGS (FIRST OBSERVED) |
| DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1962 (JCC) STATION IS THE TOP CENTER OF THE TANK, WHICH IS ABOUT 300 FEET IN HEIGHT, PAINTED A CHECKERED RED AND WHITE COLOR AND NEAR THE TOWN OF BACCHUS, WHICH IS ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE CENTER OF SALT LAKE CITY. THE TANK BELONGS TO AIR FORCE PLANT 81. |
| 01/01/1973 by NGS (GOOD) |
| RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1973 (JRS) THE BACCHUS AIR FORCE PLANT 81 WATER TANK WAS VISITED AND RECOVERED AS DESCRIBED IN 1962. |
| 01/01/1983 by DMA (GOOD) |
| RECOVERY NOTE BY DEFENSE MAP AGENCY 1983 (GAS) RECOVERED AS DESCRIBED. |
| 06/15/1985 by NGS (GOOD) |
| RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1985 (ERP) THE STATION IS A TANK. RECOVERED AS DESCRIBED. |
29 Wednesday Jul 2020
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I enjoy hunting for and documenting benchmarks, for others click here.
These one is located in Fairfield, Utah behind this historic marker.
01 Monday Jun 2020
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I love the old navigation concrete arrows, see this page for more info.
This is one I came across while geocaching near Jean, Nevada.
N 35.74019 W 115.35232
08 Wednesday Jan 2020
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I’ve spent nearly 20 years now enjoying searching for benchmarks, survey points used to map and keep track of property lines and more. They’re fascinating to a map geek like me.
This one is in Tooele County out in the desert.
Documented History (by the NGS)
01/01/1955 by USGS (MONUMENTED)
01/01/1970 by NGS (GOOD)
DESCRIBED BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1970 13.55 MI S FROM STOCKTON. 13.55 MILES SOUTH ALONG THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD FROM AN ASPHALT ROAD CROSSING AT STOCKTON, 285 FEET WEST OF THE FIRST POLE SOUTH OF MILE POST 729, 356 FEET WEST OF THE WEST RAIL, 3.8 FEET WEST OF THE FENCE LINE, 63 1/2 FEET SOUTH OF THE SOUTH END OF A GATE, 2.0 FEET WEST OF A WITNESS POST, ABOUT 3 FEET HIGHER THAN THE TRACK AND IN THE TOP OF A CONCRETE POST PROJECTING 0.8 FOOT. SECTION 27, T 5W, R 6S.
01/01/1971 by USGS (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1971 LOCATED ABOUT 200 FT. E. OF STATE HIGHWAY 36, 72 FT. S. OF GATE AND 4 FT. W. OF FENCE, IN SAGEBRUSH FLATS ALONG UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY FENCE, OPPOSITE OLD —AJAX— SECTION HOUSE FOUNDATIONS. TO REACH FROM INTERSECTION OF RD. INTO VERNON AND STATE HIGHWAY 36, DRIVE N. ON STATE HIGHWAY 36 FOR 12.6 MI. TO TRACK RD. RIGHT (E.), GO E. ABOUT 200 FT. TO GATE, TURN S. ALONG W. SIDE OF FENCE FOR 72 FT. TO STATION. STATION MARK–BRONZE TABLET STAMPED —AJAX 1955— SET IN AN 8 IN. CONCRETE FILLED TILE PROJECTING 6 IN. ABOVE GROUND. REFERENCE MARK NO. 1–CHISELED CROSS 4 FT. ABOVE GROUND ON S. SIDE OF SECOND CONCRETE POST S. OF GATE. (NOT RECOVERED). REFERENCE MARK NO. 2–CHISELED CROSS 4 FT. ABOVE GROUND ON N. SIDE OF CONCRETE POST. (NOT RECOVERED).
03 Friday Jan 2020
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Benchmarks, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Brighton, Celebrations, Hsitoric Markers, Pioneers, Salt Lake County, SUP, UPTLA, utah
The First Statewide Pioneer Day Celebration
UPTLA Marker #14 in Brighton, Utah
The first statewide Pioneer Day celebration was held in this basin July 23-24, 1857. Headed by Brigham Young, the company reaching here July 23rd numbered 2,587 persons, with 464 oxen and cows.
A program of addresses, six brass bands, singing, athletic events, drills by six companies of militia, and dancing, was punctuated by salutes from a brass howitzer. U.S. flags were flown from the two highest peaks and two highest trees, the flag-tree in front of Brigham Young’s campsite being 70 feet N.W. of here. At noon July 24, Judson Stoddard and A.O. Smoot, 20 days from the states, with Elias Smith and O.P. Rockwell, arrived with news of the advance of Johnston’s Army against the “Mormons.” The company returned in orderly formation July 25th.
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