5278 - Anaconda, MT
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T0SHEA
N 46° 07.742 W 112° 57.191
12T E 349113 N 5110238
This is a survey disc that has gone AWOL. We suspect that it had a little help in making its escape.
Waymark Code: WMKY0P
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 06/11/2014
Views: 2
On the east side of the old Montana Hotel, at the base of each of the round pillars is (was) a benchmark. This, a benchmark disc, has been forcibly removed from the south pillar, leaving only its shank. The other, at the base of the north pillar, is carved into the stone at the base, the marking being BM 5329.26.
The hotel, at one time known as the Daly Hotel, as it was built by Marcus Daly, the Anaconda Copper King, is on the west side of Main Street, on the corner of Main and Park Streets. It is directly north of the Post Office.
From the NGS:
DESIGNATION - 5278
PID - RX0441
STATE/COUNTY - MT/DEER LODGE
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - ANACONDA NORTH (1996)
MARKER: DD = SURVEY DISK
SETTING: 36 = SET IN A MASSIVE STRUCTURE
SP_SET: BUILDING
STAMPING: 5278 MSLA
STABILITY: B = PROBABLY HOLD POSITION/ELEVATION WELL
HISTORY - Date Condition Report By
HISTORY - UNK MONUMENTED USGS
HISTORY - 1944 GOOD CGS
HISTORY - 19871104 MARK NOT FOUND USPSQD
HISTORY - 20110721 POOR GEOCAC
HISTORY - 20120920 POOR INDIV
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1944
IN ANACONDA.
T ANACONDA, DEER LODGE COUNTY, IN FRONT OF THE MONTANA HOTEL, IN THE
FACE OF THE SOUTH CENTER COLUMN, 50 FEET WEST OF THE CENTERLINE OF
MAIN STREET, AND 5 FEET SOUTH OF THE CENTER OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO
THE BUILDING. A UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STANDARD DISK,
STAMPED 5278 MSLA AND SET VERTICALLY.
STATION RECOVERY (2011)
RECOVERY NOTE BY GEOCACHING 2011 (MEL)
HH2 460744.5 1125711.9
DISK IS MISSING, BUT THE STEM REMAINS SOLIDLY IMBEDDED IN THE BASE OF
THE COLUMN. THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN BASE IS LETTERED BM 5329.26. NOTE
THAT THIS DESIGNATION IS THE SAME AS RX0601 ON THE SCHOOL IN
PHILIPSBURG, GRANITE CO, MONTANA 21.5 MILES TO THE NW.