MX0326 - USC&GS 'A 35' BM - Hornbrook, CA - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

I recovered this U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey BM from 1920 in excellent condition. It is a tidal benchmark monumented on top of a concrete sidewalk and near a couple of telephone poles. This benchmark also exists on a topography map with an 'X'. The 1954 NGS datasheet description is adequate for station recovery. My accurate coordinates should place you very close to this mark.

On a side note, it was almost depressing to visit this part of Hornbrook. The community is literally a shell of its former glory days as a bustling mining/logging/railroad town in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Very few remnants remain of the once busy Front Street. A shell of a building that was once home to the Woodman of the World and Knights of Pythias Lodges stands nearby. A historical marker also nearby commemorates the 60th anniversary of the local American Legion Post whose national charter was signed by President Woodrow Wilson when he passed through Hornbrook on Sept. 16, 1919 on the train (just a year before the benchmark was monumented). So this benchmark existed on the same concrete sidewalk a year after President Wilson came through town almost 100 years ago. Cool.

NGS Datasheet info:

01/01/1920 by CGS (MONUMENTED)

01/01/1954 by NGS (GOOD)
DESCRIBED BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1954 AT HORNBROOK. AT HORNBROOK, ABOUT 50 YARDS WEST OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY RAILROAD STATION, AT OLD HOTEL HORNBROOK (NOW ABANDONED), IN THE TOP OF THE SOUTHEAST END OF THE CONCRETE SIDEWALK, 11.0 FEET NORTHEAST OF THE CENTER OF THE ENTRANCE TO THE OLD CAFE PORTION OF THE BUILDING, 2 FEET SOUTHWEST OF POWER LINE POLE E 949, AND ABOUT 0.4 FOOT HIGHER THAN THE STREET.

01/01/1988 by NGS (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1988 RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION. A NEW DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS. IN HORNBROOK, AT THE INTERSECTION OF HENLEY-HORNBROOK ROAD AND FRONT STREET, IN THE SOUTHEAST END OF THE SIDEWALK, 34.5 M (113.2 FT) SOUTHEAST OF THE CENTER OF THE ROAD, 5.7 M (18.7 FT) SOUTHWEST OF THE CENTER OF THE STREET, 2.5 M (8.2 FT) NORTHWEST OF UTILITY POLE NUMBER E 10241, AND 0.1 M (0.3 FT) SOUTHWEST OF THE NORTHEAST EDGE OF THE SIDEWALK. THE MARK IS 0.1 M ABOVE THE STREET.

Condition: Mark found in good condition Designation: A 35 Benchmark Agency: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Monumentation type: BENCH MARK (or B.M.) Disk County: Siskiyou County USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Hornbrook (1984) 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: MX0326 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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