OQ0685 Pipestone Cthse Statue on Dome -- Pipestone MN
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N 43° 59.844 W 096° 19.103
14T E 715008 N 4875080
The statue on top of the clock tower dome of the Pipestone County Courthouse in Pipestone MN is NGS benchmark OQ0685.
Waymark Code: WMJQ2Z
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 12/16/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member NW_history_buff
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This Beaux-Arts style beautiful courthouse made of quartize has two benchmarks associated with it - the statue on top of the dome and a vertical control disk on the east side steps, OQ1058 A 382.

From the NGS Datasheet: (visit link)

OQ0685 DESIGNATION - PIPESTONE CTHSE STATUE ON DOME
OQ0685 PID - OQ0685
OQ0685 STATE/COUNTY- MN/PIPESTONE
OQ0685 USGS QUAD - PIPESTONE SOUTH (1967)
OQ0685
OQ0685 *CURRENT SURVEY CONTROL
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OQ0685* NAD 83(1996)- 43 59 50.64914(N) 096 19 06.15281(W) ADJUSTED
OQ0685 ___________________________________________________________________
OQ0685
OQ0685_MARKER: 87 = DOME
OQ0685
OQ0685 HISTORY - Date Condition Recov. By
OQ0685 HISTORY - 1935 FIRST OBSERVED CGS
OQ0685 HISTORY - 1981 GOOD MNDT
OQ0685
OQ0685 STATION DESCRIPTION
OQ0685
OQ0685''DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1935 (CIA)
OQ0685''POINT OBSERVED UPON WAS TIP OF STATUE ON WHITE DOME ON N SIDE
OQ0685''OF COURTHOUSE. BASE SQUARE FORMING CLOCK TOWER. COURTHOUSE
OQ0685''LOCATED IN W CENTRAL PORTION OF PIPESTONE, CONSTRUCTED IN 1900
OQ0685''OF RED PIPESTONE.
OQ0685
OQ0685 STATION RECOVERY (1981)
OQ0685
OQ0685''RECOVERY NOTE BY MN DEPT OF TRANSP 1981 (DKH)
OQ0685''THE STATION WAS RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION AS DESCRIBED.
OQ0685''COURTHOUSE IS LOCATED AT THE NW CORNER OF S HIAWATHA AVENUE
OQ0685''AND 4TH STREET SOUTHEAST IN PIPESTONE.
OQ0685''
OQ0685''THE STATUE WAS OBSERVED FROM STA SOTADAK AZ MK, PIPE MNDT,
OQ0685''WARMER, AND WARMER ECC.
Condition: Mark found in good condition

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Benchmark Agency: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey

Monumentation type: other (not any of the below)

Monumentation type (if other): Dome

County: Pipestone County

USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Pipestone

Find type: Coordinates and/or to-reach information from the NGS database (or Geocaching's copy of it) were used

Web address of this benchmark's datasheet (optional): [Web Link]

NGS PID: OQ0685

Benchmark Agency (if other): Not listed

Special category (optional): Not listed

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Local database's URL (optional): Not listed
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