SA1750 - USCGS MUSEUM, Washington - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

This triangulation station is located about 200 feet south of the Ginkgo Petrified Forest Museum at Vantage, Washington. The cap is set in bedrock at the rim of a 200 ft cliff and about 100 feet east the park road. The cap was set by the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey in 1957 and was marked MUSEUM.
NGS PID SA1750 - (visit link)
RECOVERY NOTE BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1957 (RCM) THE STATION IS LOCATED IN GINKGO PETRIFIED FOREST STATE PARK, ABOUT 25 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF ELLENSBURG, 1/2 MILE SOUTHWEST OF VANTAGE AND 1/2 MILE WEST OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER. IT IS 200 FEET SOUTH OF THE GINKGO PETRIFIED FOREST MUSEUM BUILDING, ON THE EDGE OF A HIGH CLIFF OVERLOOKING THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND ITS BOTTOM LANDS. TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE POST OFFICE IN VANTAGE, DRIVE WEST ON U.S. HIGHWAY 10 FOR 0.5 MILE TO THE GINKGO PETRIFIED FOREST MUSEUM ENTRANCE ROAD ON THE LEFT. TURN LEFT AND DRIVE SOUTH ON THE MACADAM ROAD FOR 1.0 MILE TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE MUSEUM AND THE STATION. THE STATION MARK, STAMPED MUSEUM 1957, IS A STANDARD DISK CEMENTED IN A DRILL HOLE IN OUTCROPPING BEDROCK WHICH IS FLUSH WITH THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. IT IS 100 FEET EAST OF THE CENTER OF THE ENTRANCE ROAD TO THE MUSEUM, 6 FEET NORTHEAST OF A WHITE WITNESS POST AND 4 FEET WEST OF THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF. REFERENCE MARK 1, STAMPED MUSEUM NO 1 1957, IS A STANDARD DISK CEMENTED IN A DRILL HOLE IN OUTCROPPING BEDROCK WHICH IS FLUSH WITH THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. IT IS 100 FEET EAST OF THE CENTER OF THE ENTRANCE ROAD TO THE MUSEUM AND 3 FEET WEST OF THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF. REFERENCE MARK 2, STAMPED MUSEUM NO 2 1957, IS A STANDARD DISK CEMENTED IN A DRILL HOLE IN OUTCROPPING BEDROCK WHICH IS FLUSH WITH THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. IT IS 71 FEET EAST OF THE ENTRANCE ROAD TO THE MUSEUM AND 33 FEET WEST OF THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF.

Condition: Mark found in good condition Designation: MUSEUM Benchmark Agency: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Monumentation type: TRIANGULATION STATION Disk County: Kittitas USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Vantage 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: SA1750 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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