USGS Big Bottom/Tad
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member frex3wv
N 38° 20.032 W 081° 29.605
17S E 456876 N 4242974
Benchmark found in an effort to establish location.
Waymark Code: WM26JR
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/12/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Black Dog Trackers
Views: 48

Found this benchmark with the intent of trying to understand the USGS description system.

Went looking on my lunch break and quickly found a school and post office in the area I thought I should be looking in. Inquiries at the PO placed the old PO on the same site - but back in the 50's it was in a wooden general store. I went across the street and asked the folks at the school when the bulding was built. They said "lets look at the plaque hanging over here." Lo and behold it said Campbells Creek Elementary! Just what I had hoped for, as that was the school referenced in the brief description. I was then told I should talk to the school cook - who had lived nearby in Big Bottom/Tad her whole life. She told me about the area - showed me a blown up picture of the very area during the famed 1961 flood, etc. We talked and talked, but she wasn't familiar with the flagpole I was looking for. We walked out onto the grounds, and I was about to head back to the PO to get in my car, when I looked over and - there it was: a concrete "tablet" with the Benchmark in it - and a hole where the American Flag once stood! Awesome - an ftf in over 50 years and the disk was in perfect shape - as if it had just been placed. I took pictures, and thanked the kind lady I had enjoyed talking to. I was thrilled to find the mark, but happier still of the reminder that there are so many nice people in the world yet to meet!
Condition: Mark found in good condition

Designation: 4JJS 1956

Benchmark Agency: U.S. Geological Survey

Monumentation type: BENCH MARK (or B.M.) Disk

USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Clendenin

Find type: Location information obtained from the USGS was used

Benchmark Agency (if other): Not listed

Monumentation type (if other): Not listed

County: 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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