NJGS 5 A 2 2000, New Jersey
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seventhings
N 39° 17.267 W 074° 37.717
18S E 532028 N 4348778
NJGS 5 A 2 2000, New Jersey, is a survey disk located near the southwest end of the US Highway bridge over Great Egg Harbor Bay near the Tuckahoe Inn at Beesely’s Point, New Jersey.
Waymark Code: WM6V6
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 01/30/2006
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NJGS 5 A 2, New Jersey, is a New Jersey Geodetic Survey survey disk (geodetic control survey station) mounted flush in the top of a concrete retaining wall near the southwest end of the US Highway 9 bridge over Great Egg Harbor Bay, near the Tuckahoe Inn in the Beeseley’s Point section of Upper Township, Cape May County, NJ. The station is 68.6 feet southwest of station USCGS CG 2 1971, 31.8 feet west-northwest of the centerline of US Highway 9, 15.4 feet east of wood utility pole W24269, 7.2 feet northeast of the southwest end of the retaining wall, about four feet west-southwest of the southwest end of a metal guardrail, and directly below a sign soliciting applicants for positions in the local fire department. The disk was monumented by the New Jersey Geodetic Survey in 2000, and is stamped 5 A 2 2000. It is in the National Geodetic Survey database at PID = AM6982 (
visit link) . To reach the station from the Garden State Parkway, take Exit 25 to County Road 623 (Roosevelt Blvd) westbound. Go northwest on County Road 623 for about 0.30 miles to the intersection with US Highway 9. Turn right and go northeast on US Highway 9 for about 1.90 miles to the barriers at the southwest end of the closed bridge, the Tuckahoe Inn on the right and the station on the left. Note, there is no approach from the north on US Highway 9 as the US Highway 9 bridge over Great Egg Harbor Bay is closed. Recovery of this station first logged at the Geocaching datasheet for NJHA station BAY 1, PID = JU4425.