USGS Bench Mark SA 35, San Antonio, Texas USA - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

The East side of the Bexar County Courthouse faces toward the San Antonio River and its River Walk. The North side faces toward the Canary Islanders sculpture and the Lady Liberty Fountain and sculpture. Walk around the NE corner of the courthouse and there is a stairway leading up and into the courthouse. On both sides of the stairway are sunken drainage areas along the building's outer wall. A large iron grate is laid across two red granite beams on the left of the stairway. The beam supporting the right edge of this large grate has the bench mark embedded in the middle portion of the span.

The round disk has two rows of text wrapped around the edge and the center space has the disk's elevation data and the disk's identification number. From the outer edge into the center, the disk reads as follows:

Outer/first ring of text:
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY B. M.

Inner /second ring of text:
250 DOLLAR FINE FOR DISTURBING THIS MARK

Center Text:
ELEVATION
655.7 FEET

SA
35

Condition: Mark found in good condition Designation: U. S. Geological Survey B.M. SA 35 Benchmark Agency: U.S. Geological Survey Monumentation type: BENCH MARK (or B.M.) Disk County: San Antonio, Texas Find type: Found by luck/skill/knowledge Benchmark Agency (if other): Not listed Monumentation type (if other): Not listed USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Not listed Special category (optional): Not listed Special Category (if other): Not listed Web address of this benchmark's datasheet (optional): Not listed NGS PID: Not listed Local database's URL (optional): Not listed

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