TURKEY POINT RM 4 - Cecil County, MD - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

TURKEY POINT RM 4, which originally served as a reference mark for Triangulation Station TURKEY POINT RESET (JV4849) dating from 1896, & was promoted to a first-order horizontal control station after the main station became unusable (now at the bottom of a cliff).

The mark is located beyond the S end of MD State Route 272. From the parking area, pack southward along gravel trail approx. 0.7 mi to the lighthouse on the left - mark is 58.607 meters WSW (071°51') of the lighthouse at the highpoint of a bluff overlooking the confluence of Elk River & Chesapeake Bay.


Details from the NGS datasheet are as follows:

DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1962 (RWT) THE STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 10.0 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF NORTHEAST, MARYLAND, ON TURKEY POINT, A BLUFF HEADLAND AT THE HEAD OF CHESAPEAKE BAY, SEPARATING THE MOUTHS OF THE ELK AND NORTHEAST RIVERS, ON LAND BELONGING TO THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LIGHTHOUSES.

TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE JUNCTION OF U.S. HIGHWAY 40 AND STATE HIGHWAY 272 ABOUT 0.8 MILE NORTH OF NORTHEAST. GO SOUTH ON STATE HIGHWAY 272 FOR 0.8 MILE TO THE POST OFFICE IN NORTHEAST, MARYLAND. CONTINUE SOUTH ON STATE HIGHWAY 272 FOR 6.2 MILES TO A FORK IN THE SMALL SETTLEMENT OF ELK NECK, MARYLAND. TAKE THE RIGHT HAND FORK AND CONTINUE SOUTH-SOUTHWEST ON A BLACKTOP ROAD FOR 3.15 MILES TO THE END OF THE BLACKTOP AND A Y-FORK INTERSECTION. TAKE THE RIGHT HAND FORK AND GO SOUTHEAST, UPHILL, ON A GRAVELED ROAD FOR 3.1 MILES TO FIELD ROAD ON THE RIGHT, ABOUT 200.0 FEET BEFORE REACHING A FARM HOUSE TO THE SOUTH. TURN RIGHT ONTO THE FIELD ROAD AND GO ABOUT 75.0 FEET TO A GATE. PASS THROUGH THE GATE AND CONTINUE WEST ON THE TRACK FIELD ROAD ALONG THE SOUTH EDGE OF TIMBER FOR 0.2 MILE TO A DIM FORK AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF FIELD. TAKE THE LEFT HAND FORK AND GO SOUTH UPHILL ON A TRACK ROAD, UP AN OLD LANE FOR 0.15 MILE TO A GATE TO A FENCE AROUND THE LIGHTHOUSE AND THE AZIMUTH MARK ON THE LEFT AS DESCRIBED. PASS THROUGH THE GATE AND GO SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE YARD OF THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR ABOUT 50.0 FEET TO ANOTHER GATE. PASS THROUGH THE SECOND GATE AND CONTINUE SOUTHWEST FOR ABOUT 210.0 FEET TO A STANDARD METAL WITNESS POST AND MARKER AND THE STATION.

THE STATION MARK, A STANDARD REFERENCE MARK DISK STAMPED TURKEY POINT NO 4 1845 1962, IS SET IN TOP OF A 10-INCH SQUARE CONCRETE MONUMENT PROJECTING ABOUT 2 INCHES ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. IT IS 154.0 FEET WEST OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE FENCE INCLOSEING THE LIGHTHOUSE, 93.0 FEET SOUTH OF THE NORTH CUT BANK OF THE BAY AND 4.3 FEET NORTH OF A STANDARD METAL WITNESS POST AND MARKER.

REFERENCE MARK 2, A STANDARD DISK STAMPED TURKEY POINT NO 2 1845 1933, IS SET IN TOP OF A 12-INCH CONCRETE CYLINDER PROJECTING ABOUT 10 INCHES ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND.

IT IS 156.6 FEET SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE FENCE AROUND THE LIGHTHOUSE, 130.0 FEET SOUTHEAST OF A STANDARD METAL WITNESS POST AND MARKER, 48.0 FEET WEST-SOUTHWEST OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF OLD FOG-BELL HOUSE, 6.0 FEET NORTH OF THE CUT BANK OF THE BAY AND ABOUT STATION ELEVATION.

REFERENCE MARK 3, A STANDARD DISK STAMPED TURKEY POINT NO 3 1845 1933, IS SET IN TOP OF A 12-INCH CONCRETE CYLINDER PROJECTING ABOUT 2 INCHES ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. IT IS 250.6 FEET SOUTHEAST OF A STANDARD METAL WITNESS POST AND MARKER, 21.0 FEET NORTH OF A 6-INCH WILD CHERRY TREE, 2.0 FEET SOUTH OF AN EAST AND WEST FENCELINE AND IS ABOUT 7.0 FEET LOWER THAN THE STATION.

REFERENCE MARK 5, A STANDARD DISK STAMPED TURKEY POINT NO 5 1845 1962, IS SET IN TOP OF A 10-INCH SQUARE CONCRETE MONUMENT PROJECTING ABOUT 6 INCHES ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. IT IS 118.0 FEET WEST OF THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF FENCE AROUND THE LIGHTHOUSE, 78.4 FEET NORTHEAST OF A STANDARD METAL WITNESS POST AND MARKER, 71.6 FEET SOUTH OF A TWIN FORKED WILD CHERRY TREE AND ABOUT 12 INCHES BELOW THE STATION.

THE AZIMUTH MARK, A STANDARD DISK STAMPED TURKEY POINT 1845 1933 RESET 1962, IS SET IN TOP OF A 10-INCH SQUARE CONCRETE MONUMENT PROJECTING ABOUT 3 INCHES ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. IT IS 161.0 FEET EAST OF THE APPROXIMATE CENTERLINE OF TRACK ROAD, 175.0 FEET EAST-NORTHEAST OF THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF FENCE AROUND LIGHT HOUSE AND FRAME HOUSE, 7.0 FEET EAST OF THE EAST EDGE OF FIELD AND 3.6 FEET WEST-NORTHWEST OF A STANDARD METAL WITNESS POST AND MARKER.

A TRAVERSE CONNECTION WAS MADE TO TRIANGULATION STATION TURKEY POINT 1845, DISTANCE BEING (110.59 FEET) AND 33.708 METERS SOUTHWEST OF STATION TURKEY POINT 1845. THE STATION IS A STANDARD DISK STAMPED TURKEY POINT 1845 1933, SET IN TOP OF A 12-INCH CONCRETE CYLINDER, WHICH IS ABOUT 18 INCHES BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. IT IS 108.5 FEET WEST-SOUTHWEST OF A STANDARD METAL WITNESS POST AND MARKER, 10.0 FEET NORTH OF THE NORTH EDGE OF CUT BANK OF THE BAY, 290.15 FEET WEST OF THE DOOR OF THE FOG-BELL HOUSE.

NOTE--THE LINES TO STATIONS SCHID AND LOCUST 3 1933 WILL BE VISIBLE FROM THE GROUND WITH ABOUT 1/2 HOUR CLEARING.

HEIGHT OF LIGHT ABOVE STATION MARK 22 METERS.

11/14/1990 by USPSQD (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1990 (CSU) RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.

Condition: Mark found in good condition Designation: TURKET POINT NO 4 Benchmark Agency: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Monumentation type: REFERENCE MARK Disk County: Cecil County USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Spesutie 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: JV4848 Local database's URL (optional): [Web Link] Benchmark Agency (if other): Not listed Monumentation type (if other): Not listed Special category (optional): Not listed Special Category (if other): Not listed

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