HU0255: P111 1967 (MDBS/NGS, Berlin, MD)
Posted by: NH2beers
N 38° 21.297 W 075° 14.700
18S E 478593 N 4245227
A MDBS standard disk, located in Berlin, MD.
The NGS PID# is HU0255.
Waymark Code: WMP501
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 07/01/2015
Views: 2
This station is a Maryland Bureau of Survey and Maps standard disk, located in Berlin, MD. It is set in the northeast corner of a concrete catch basin, positioned between the eastbound lanes of U.S. Route 50, and MD Route 346 (Old Ocean City Road):
RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1990 3.1 KM (1.93 MI) WESTERLY ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 50 FROM ITS JUNCTION WITH U.S. HIGHWAY 113 IN BERLIN, 0.2 KM (0.12 MI) SOUTHEAST OF A HIGHWAY CROSSOVER, IN THE EAST CORNER OF A STORM DRAIN INLET, 24.5 M (80.38 FT) NORTHEAST OF UTILITY POLE NUMBER 57003 92707 298, 10.7 M (35.10 FT) NORTHEAST OF THE CENTERLINE OF A FRONTAGE ROAD, 10.5 M (34.45 FT) SOUTHWEST OF THE CENTERLINE OF THE EASTBOUND LANES OF THE HIGHWAY, AND 0.3 M (0.98 FT) BELOW THE LEVEL OF THE HIGHWAY.
The safest approach to this station is to get off U.S. 50 at the MD 346 crossover and go east on MD 346 for 0.12-mi to the mark on the left.
This station is also loggable on Geocaching's site. Please consider logging this mark on both sites when you recover it. Thank you.
Condition: Mark found in good condition
Designation: P-111 1967 USCGS
Benchmark Agency: State of Maryland
Monumentation type: Disk (unspecified type)
County: Worcester
USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Berlin
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: HU0255
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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