JR1261 - USC&GS 'INITIAL MON 1 CA NV' Bolt - South Lake Tahoe, CA - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

This is one of the neatest benchmarks I've recovered. This benchmark contains three parts: a bolt monumented on a granite block in 1894, a granite boundary monument monumented next to the bolt in 1899 dividing Nevada and California and a metal General Land Office Survey disk from 1946 monumented on the granite monument's west face (the USGLO disk is not mentioned in any of the NGS logs). The NGS datasheet is now mostly obsolete. The two houses mentioned and most of the trees have been destroyed to make room for a new golf resort complex at Edgewood Tahoe. One of the golf fairways has been re-routed and now resides next to this monument. The monument stands between the golf fairway and the resort beach. This monument is on private property belonging to Edgewood. The completion date of the new resort complex is June, 2017. I do not know if this monument will be accessible to the general public but I would assume it can be if you visit the resort and request permission to visit as a guest. Just walk the resort beach to this station from the golf resort parking lot.

The NGS datasheet info:

01/01/1894 by CGS (MONUMENTED)
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1894 (CHS) THIS STATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1894 ON THE SHORE OF LAKE TAHOE, AND MARKED BY A GRANITE STONE WITH A COPPER BOLT IN IT. THE STONE PROJECTS ABOUT 14 INCHES ABOVE GROUND, AND WAS NOT DISTURBED WHEN A GRANITE MONUMENT WAS PLACED ALONGSIDE IT IN JUNE, 1899. THE MONUMENT WAS SET IN CONCRETE, AND THE HOLE WAS ENLARGED SO AS TO INCLUDE THE OLD STONE IN THE CONCRETE MASS. BEING THE FIRST STONE IN THE OBLIQUE BOUNDARY, IT WAS CALLED NO. 1. THE MONUMENT IS OF GRANITE 6 FEET LONG, 12 BY 12 INCHES AT THE BASE AND 6 BY 6 INCHES AT THE TOP, WEIGHT ABOUT 850 POUNDS. THE BOUNDARY MONUMENTS ARE DESIGNATED AS NO. 1, NO. 2, ETC., THE MARKS ON THE RANDOM LINE AS T 1, T 2, ETC., COUNTING FROM LAKE TAHOE. THE MONUMENT HAS C CUT ON THE CALIFORNIA SIDE, N ON THE NEVADA SIDE, AND NO. 1 MARKED ON THE NW FACE IN BLACK PAINT.

01/01/1940 by USFS (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY US FOREST SERVICE 1940 RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION AS DESCRIBED.

01/01/1981 by NGS (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1981 (LBG) THE STATION WAS NOT OCCUPIED. AN ECCENTRIC POINT WAS OCCUPIED TO SEE ALL STATIONS NEEDED. THE ROUTE TO REACH THE STATION HAS CHANGED SO A NEW DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS. THE STATION IS LOCATED AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LAKE TAHOE ON THE SHORE OF THE LAKE, JUST BEHIND THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF A HOUSE. PROPERTY OWNER MUST BE CONTACTED BEFORE VISITING STATION. OWNERSHIP--MRS MARGARET PRUETT, P.O. BOX 2204, SOUTH LAKE TAHOE NV, PHONE (702) 588 2552. TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE JUNCTION OF U.S. HIGHWAY 50 AND STATE LINE AVENUE AT THE CALIFORNIA-NEVADA BOUNDARY, GO NORTHWEST ON STATE LINE AVENUE FOR 0.5 KM (0.3 MI) TO A STREET ON THE RIGHT (PINE BOULEVARD), TURN RIGHT AND GO NORTHEAST ON PINE BOULEVARD FOR 0.3 KM (0.2 MI) TO THE ENTRANCE TO EDGEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB AND GOLF COURSE. TURN LEFT AND GO NORTHWEST ON ASPHALT ROAD FOR 0.6 KM (0.35 MI) TO A CIRCLE DRIVE AND COUNTRY CLUB. TURN LEFT AND GO SOUTH ON ASPHALT DRIVE FOR 0.2 KM ( 0.1 MI) TO THE PRUETT HOUSE, WHICH IS THE FIRST OF TWO HOUSES, CONTINUE SOUTH ON THE ASPHALT DRIVE FOR 0.1 KM (0.05 MI) TO THE SECOND HOUSE AND THE STATION JUST BEHIND THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE HOUSE. THE STATION IS A COPPER BOLT WITH A CROSS MARKED ON THE TOP SET FLUSH INTO THE TOP OF A GRANITE STONE THAT PROJECTS 0.3 METER AND IS 0.3 METER ACROSS. A CUT GRANITE MONUMENT 1.3 METERS TALL IS 0.4 METER TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE STONE CONTAINING THE STATION. IT IS LOCATED 23 METERS (75 FT) SOUTHEAST FROM THE EDGE OF LAKE TAHOE, 11.9 METERS (39.0 FT) WEST-NORTHWEST FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF A WOOD SIDED HOUSE, AND 6.1 METERS (20.0 FT) NORTH-NORTHEAST FROM THE MOST WESTERLY 1 OF A GROUP OF LARGE PINE TREES.

Condition: Mark found in good condition Designation: INITIAL MON 1 CA NV Benchmark Agency: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Monumentation type: Bolt County: El Dorado County USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): South Lake Tahoe (1992) 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: JR1261 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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