78941 Former Flatonia Post Office -- Flatonia TX - U.S. Post Offices on Waymarking.com

The US 90/Old Spanish Trail passes through downtown Flatonia as North Main Street, paralleling the Southern Pacific railroad tracks which splits the US 90 into North and South Main streets. North and South Main are divided further into East and West segments by the TX SH 95, because Flatonia's downtown is so sprawlingly huge and complex that you need that kind of directional assistance (not).

The old Flatonia Post office was established in this building in the 1870s. It served as the city's post office for nearly 100 years, and was monumented with CGS benchmark AX1285 L 121 in 1933. A new post office was built across the street in 1970.

The old post office building is now used for retail, but is still located at 116 East South Main, a block off the OST. Anyone and everyone wanting to pick up or mail a letter would have stopped in here.

From the NGS Datasheet: (visit link)

"AX1285 DESIGNATION - L 121
AX1285 PID - AX1285
AX1285 STATE/COUNTY- TX/FAYETTE
AX1285 USGS QUAD - FLATONIA (1982)
AX1285
AX1285 *CURRENT SURVEY CONTROL
AX1285 ___________________________________________________________________
AX1285* NAD 83(1986)- 29 41 11. (N) 097 06 27. (W) SCALED
AX1285* NAVD 88 - 141.09 (+/-2cm) 462.9 (feet) VERTCON
AX1285 ___________________________________________________________________
AX1285
AX1285_MARKER: DB = BENCH MARK DISK
AX1285_SETTING: 36 = BRICK PILLAR
AX1285_STAMPING: L. 121. 1933
AX1285_STABILITY: B = PROBABLY HOLD POSITION/ELEVATION WELL
AX1285
AX1285 HISTORY - Date Condition Recov. By
AX1285 HISTORY - 1933 MONUMENTED CGS
AX1285 HISTORY - 1943 GOOD NGS
AX1285 HISTORY - 1988 GOOD USPSQD
AX1285 HISTORY - 19970607 GOOD USPSQD
AX1285
AX1285 STATION DESCRIPTION
AX1285
AX1285''DESCRIBED BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1943
AX1285''IN FLATONIA.
AX1285''BENCH MARK IS SET VERTICALLY IN THE CENTER OF THE NORTH FACE OF A
AX1285''BRICK PILLAR BETWEEN THE TWO NORTH ENTRANCE DOORS OF THE POST OFFICE
AX1285''AT FLATONIA. IT IS ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF AND ACROSS THE TEXAS AND NEW
AX1285''ORLEANS RAILROAD TRACK FROM THE CENTERLINE OF U.S. HIGHWAY NO. 90, 4.2
AX1285''FEET ABOVE THE TOP OF THE BOTTOM STEP OF THE NORTH ENTRANCE OF THE
AX1285''POST OFFICE AND IN THE CENTER OF THE PILLAR. A DISK SET IN A DRILL
AX1285''HOLE.
AX1285
AX1285 STATION RECOVERY (1988)
AX1285
AX1285''RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1988 (DLP)
AX1285''RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.
AX1285
AX1285 STATION RECOVERY (1997)
AX1285
AX1285''RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1997
AX1285''RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION."

Type of structure:: commercial block re-enter Zip Code here:: 78941 Current Status:: Former Historic Location

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