USCGS GEH 1 1971, New Jersey
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seventhings
N 39° 17.263 W 074° 37.710
18S E 532038 N 4348771
USCGS GEH 1 1971, New Jersey, is a bench mark 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: WM6V9
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 01/30/2006
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USCGS GEH 1 1971, New Jersey, is a US Coast and Geodetic Survey bench mark disk mounted flush in the top of the sidewalk 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 98.4 feet south-southwest from wood utility pole 77-09163, 70.9 feet east from wood utility pole 20706 301 75, and 24.6 feet east-southeast from the centerline of US Highway 9. The disk was monumented by the US Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1971 and documented for inclusion in the National Spatial Reference System by the New Jersey Geodetic Survey in 2000. It is stamped GEH 1 1971 and is in the National Geodetic Survey database at PID = AM6971 (
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 right at the northeast end of the sidewalk on the southeast side of US Highway 9. 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.