USGS Big Bottom/Tad - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

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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