HE0274 - Joplin, MO
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N 37° 05.298 W 094° 30.873
15S E 365392 N 4105740
Mounted in the sidewalk in the parking lot on the SE side of the old Courthouse and Post Office on S Joplin Ave, Joplin, MO.
Waymark Code: WMT488
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/22/2016
Views: 5
Mounted in the sidewalk in the parking lot on the SE side of the old Courthouse and Post Office on S Joplin Ave, Joplin, MO. The station is visible from the street and is next to a ventilation grate. The marker appears to have been re-designated from M 53.
Designation: W 47
Marker Type: bench mark disk
Setting: set into the top of a round concrete monument
Stability: May hold, but of type commonly subject to surface motion.
01/01/1934 by CGS (MONUMENTED)
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1934 AT JOPLIN. AT JOPLIN, JASPER COUNTY, AT THE POST OFFICE, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING, NEAR THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE LEDGE AROUND THE EAST BASEMENT WINDOW, AND LEVEL WITH THE GROUND. A STANDARD DISK SET IN TOP OF A CONCRETE POST.
Condition: Mark found in good condition
Designation: W 47
Benchmark Agency: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
Benchmark Agency (if other): N/A
Monumentation type: BENCH MARK (or B.M.) Disk
Monumentation type (if other): N/A
County: Jasper
USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Joplin
Special category (optional): Not listed
Special Category (if other): N/A
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: HE0274
Local database's URL (optional): Not listed
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