Soup - Sunset Beach, NC
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Ernmark
N 33° 52.119 W 078° 30.432
17S E 730586 N 3750389
North Carolina Geodetic Survey horizontal control mark located near the pier on Sunset Beach.
Waymark Code: WM5BD8
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 12/12/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Volcanoguy
Views: 23

Description from the current NGS datasheet is as follows:

STATION DESCRIPTION

DESCRIBED BY NORTH CAROLINA GEODETIC SURVEY 1999 (WLL)
STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 3.8 MI (6.1 KM) EAST-SOUTHEAST OF CALABASH AND ON THE ISLAND OF SUNSET BEACH. ALONG SUNSET BLVD FOR 1.0 MI (1.6 KM) SOUTH FROM THE AIWW BRIDGE, AT SUNSET BEACH, TO MAIN STREET AND THE STATION, IN THE 4-FOOT WIDE CONCRETE SIDEWALK ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET, BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE PIER PARKING LOTS. MARK IS ABOUT LEVEL WITH MAIN STREET. LOCATED 21.6 FT (6.6 M) SOUTH OF THE CENTERLINE OF MAIN STREET, 38.0 FT (11.6 M) SOUTHWEST OF THE CENTERLINE INTERSECTION OF MAIN STREET/SUNSET BLVD, 1.0 FT (0.3 M) SOUTH OF THE NORTH EDGE OF THE SIDEWALK, 47.0 FT (14.3 M) SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF A STORM DRAIN IN THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT AND 72.3 EAST-NORTHEAST OF U.S.E. MON--SUNSET--.

STATION RECOVERY (2005)

RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 2005 (HWP)
RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.

STATION RECOVERY (2008)

RECOVERY NOTE BY SOUTH CAROLINA GEODETIC SURVEY 2008 (DDW)
RECOVERED AS DESCRIBED.
Condition: Mark found in good condition

Designation: SOUP - 1999

Benchmark Agency: Not listed

Monumentation type: HORIZONTAL CONTROL Disk

County: Brunswick

USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Little River

Find type: Coordinates and/or to-reach information from the NGS database (or Geocaching's copy of it) were used

Web address of this benchmark's datasheet (optional): [Web Link]

NGS PID: AJ4993

Benchmark Agency (if other): Not listed

Monumentation type (if other): Not listed

Special category (optional): Not listed

Special Category (if other): Not listed

Local database's URL (optional): Not listed

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