78840 -- Former Main Post office, Del Rio TX - U.S. Post Offices on Waymarking.com

When Blasterz saw this building, they recognized it had to be the old post office we were looking for to find benchmark AZ0110 G 32. So we were pretty surprised to the "Val Verde Justice Center" spelled out across the front of the building, even if some of the Letters were broken and hanging.

But there are two artifacts on the building that proves that this is a former US government building: (1) the cornerstone listing the US Secretary of the Treasury on it, and (2) US Coast and Geodetic Survey benchmark AZ0110 G 32, which we found exactly according tio the datasheet description.

From the NGS Datasheet: (visit link)

"AZ0110 DESIGNATION - G 32
AZ0110 PID - AZ0110
AZ0110 STATE/COUNTY- TX/VAL VERDE
AZ0110 USGS QUAD - DEL RIO SW (1975)
AZ0110
AZ0110 *CURRENT SURVEY CONTROL
AZ0110 ___________________________________________________________________
AZ0110* NAD 83(1986)- 29 21 44. (N) 100 53 57. (W) SCALED
AZ0110* NAVD 88 - 292.885 (meters) 960.91 (feet) ADJUSTED
AZ0110 ___________________________________________________________________
AZ0110
AZ0110_MARKER: DB = BENCH MARK DISK
AZ0110_SETTING: 36 = BUILDING
AZ0110_STAMPING: ELEV. 960.67 FT G 32 1917
AZ0110_STABILITY: B = PROBABLY HOLD POSITION/ELEVATION WELL
AZ0110
AZ0110 HISTORY - Date Condition Recov. By
AZ0110 HISTORY - 1917 MONUMENTED CGS
AZ0110 HISTORY - 1957 GOOD NGS
AZ0110 HISTORY - 1982 GOOD NGS
AZ0110
AZ0110 STATION DESCRIPTION
AZ0110
AZ0110''DESCRIBED BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1957
AZ0110''IN DEL RIO.
AZ0110''AT THE SOUTHWEST ENTRANCE TO THE POST OFFICE AND FEDERAL BUILDING, IN
AZ0110''THE TOP OF THE STONE COPING AT THE SOUTHEAST END OF THE STEPS, 37 FEET
AZ0110''NORTHEAST OF THE CENTER LINE OF MAIN STREET, 13 FEET SOUTHEAST OF THE
AZ0110''CENTER LINE OF THE SOUTHWEST ENTRANCE, 1 FOOT SOUTHWEST OF THE
AZ0110''SOUTHWEST FACE OF THE BUILDING AND ABOUT 4 FEET ABOVE THE SIDEWALK.
AZ0110
AZ0110 STATION RECOVERY (1982)
AZ0110
AZ0110''RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1982
AZ0110''THE MARK IS SET AT THE SOUTHWEST ENTRANCE (WHICH IS NOT IN USE AT THIS
AZ0110''TIME) OF THE OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING, NOW THE COUNTY COURT HOUSE IN
AZ0110''DEL RIO, SET IN THE TOP OF THE STONE BANISTER AT THE SOUTHEAST END OF
AZ0110''THE STEPS, 11.2 METERS (37.0 FT) NORTHEAST OF THE CENTERLINE OF MAIN
AZ0110''STREET, 3.9 METERS (13.0 FT) SOUTHEAST OF AN EXTENDED CENTER OF THE
AZ0110''SOUTHWEST ENTRANCE, AND 0.3 METER (1.0 FT) SOUTHWEST OF THE SOUTHWEST
AZ0110''FACE OF THE BUILDING.
AZ0110''THE MARK IS 1.2 M ABOVE THE SIDEWALK."

Type of structure:: stand alone re-enter Zip Code here:: 78840 Current Status:: Retired

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