This cool benchmark plate is affixes to a now-buried reference post. It is located at the eastern corner of the old Fort Brown Post Hospital building, now the office of the President of Texas Southmost College.
From the NGS Datasheet: (
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"AB0002 DESIGNATION - B 49 RP 44 IBWC
AB0002 PID - AB0002
AB0002 STATE/COUNTY- TX/CAMERON
AB0002 USGS QUAD - EAST BROWNSVILLE (1984)
AB0002
AB0002 *CURRENT SURVEY CONTROL
AB0002 ___________________________________________________________________
AB0002* NAD 83(1986)- 25 53 56.(N) 097 29 28.(W) SCALED
AB0002
AB0002_PROJECTION: PROJECTING 30 CENTIMETERS
AB0002_STABILITY: C = MAY HOLD, BUT OF TYPE COMMONLY SUBJECT TO
AB0002+STABILITY: SURFACE MOTION
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AB0002 HISTORY - Date Condition Recov. By
AB0002 HISTORY - UNK MONUMENTED IBC
AB0002 HISTORY - 1951 GOOD NGS
AB0002 HISTORY - 1981 GOOD NGS
AB0002 HISTORY - 1987 GOOD USPSQD
AB0002 HISTORY - 1988 GOOD USPSQD
AB0002 HISTORY - 1990 POOR USPSQD
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AB0002 STATION DESCRIPTION
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AB0002''DESCRIBED BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1951
AB0002''IN BROWNSVILLE.
AB0002''4 BLOCKS NORTHEAST ALONG 14TH STREET FROM THE GATEWAY BRIDGE AT
AB0002''BROWNSVILLE, THENCE 0.1 MILE SOUTHEAST ALONG JEFFERSON STREET, THENCE
AB0002''0.15 MILE SOUTHEAST ALONG HEINTZEIMAN ROAD, AT THE FORT BROWNSVILLE
AB0002''RESERVATION WHICH IS NOW OCCUPIED BY TEXAS SOUTHMOST COLLEGE, 117.4
AB0002''FEET WEST OF TRIANGULATION STATION BROWNSVILLE LONGITUDE, 14.4 FEET
AB0002''NORTHWEST OF THE NORTHWEST EDGE OF THE DOOR TO THE EVENING SCHOOL
AB0002''OFFICE, 5.5 FEET NORTHWEST OF THE NORTH CORNER OF THE OLD FORT BROWN
AB0002''HOSPITAL, SET IN THE TOP OF A CONCRETE POST WHICH IS INSCRIBED RP 44
AB0002''AND PROJECTS 0.2 FOOT ABOVE THE GROUND.
AB0002
AB0002 STATION RECOVERY (1981)
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AB0002''RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1981
AB0002''0.5 KM (0.35 MI) SOUTHEAST ALONG BUSINESS U.S. HIGHWAY 77 FROM THE
AB0002''POST OFFICE IN BROWNSVILLE, THENCE 0.5 KM (0.3 MI) NORTHEAST ALONG
AB0002''STATE HIGHWAY 4 (INTERNATIONAL BOULEVARD), THENCE 0.2 KM (0.15 MI)
AB0002''SOUTHEAST ALONG RIDGELY ROAD, THENCE 0.2 KM (0.1 MI) SOUTHWEST ALONG A
AB0002''PAVED STREET TO THE NORTH CORNER OF THE OLD FORT BROWN HOSPITAL, WHICH
AB0002''IS WEST OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BUILDING 95-A 95-B , THE MARK IS A
AB0002''0.1 METER (0.35 IN) IRON PLATE SET IN THE TOP OF A SQUARE CONCRETE
AB0002''POST INSCRIBED RP 44 WHICH PROJECTS O.3 METERS (1.0 FT), 41.6 METERS
AB0002''(136.5 FT) EAST OF A FLAGPOLE, 4.4 METERS (14.5 FT) NORTHWEST OF THE
AB0002''NORTHWEST EDGE OF THE ENTRANCE DOOR TO THE OLD EVENING SCHOOL OFFICE
AB0002''BUILDING, 2.0 METERS (5.5 FT) NORTHWEST OF THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE
AB0002''OLD FORT BROWN HOSPITAL, 0.3 METER (1.0 FT) SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF THE
AB0002''SOUTH SOUTHWEST EDGE OF A SIDEWALK, AND 35.7 METERS (117.4 FT) WEST OF
AB0002''TRIANGULATION STATION BROWNSVILLE LONGITUDE.
AB0002''THE MARK IS ABOVE LEVEL WITH SIDEWALK.
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AB0002 STATION RECOVERY (1987)
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AB0002''RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1987 (GES)
AB0002''RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.
AB0002
AB0002 STATION RECOVERY (1988)
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AB0002''RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1988 (DLP)
AB0002''RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.
AB0002
AB0002 STATION RECOVERY (1990)
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AB0002''RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1990 (GES)
AB0002''MARK RECOVERED IN POOR CONDITION."