AI8357 - 841 0140 L TIDAL - Eastport, ME
Posted by: king.hubi
N 44° 54.269 W 066° 59.041
19T E 659154 N 4974316
A National Ocean Service (NOS) tidal bench mark disk in Eastport, Maine located along Water Street at the city pier.
Waymark Code: WMB0DJ
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 03/19/2011
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This tidal bench mark disk from the National Ocean Service (NOS) is located in
Eastport, Maine along Water Street in the top of a concrete retaining wall on the north side of the inshore end of the city pier. It is also 16 feet south-east of a tall fisherman statue. The disk was found in a good condition, it has a circle with a line in the middle and its stamping is
0140 L 1990. Its designation is
841 0140 L TIDAL. The station is listed in the
NGS database and it is listed in the
NOS database.
This is the original description taken from the NOS datasheet which is still accurate:
The bench mark is a disk set in a concrete retaining wall on the north side of the inshore end of the City Pier, 9.63 m (31.6 ft) NE of a cast iron lamp pole, 3.35 m (11.0 ft) north of the centerline of the pavement leading to the tide house, and 0.15 m (0.5 ft) south of the north face of the northernmost abutment at the west end of the pier.
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Enjoy your visit of Eastport, the eaternmost city in the United States.