The handsome Union County Courthouse in the picturesque college town of Oxford MS is NGS benchmark EG1764.
From the NGS Datasheet: (
visit link)
"EG1764 DESIGNATION - OXFORD COURTHOUSE CUPOLA
EG1764 PID - EG1764
EG1764 STATE/COUNTY- MS/LAFAYETTE
EG1764 USGS QUAD - OXFORD SOUTH (1980)
EG1764
EG1764 *CURRENT SURVEY CONTROL
EG1764 __________________________________________________________________
EG1764* NAD 83(1993)- 34 21 58.97927(N) 089 31 07.48077(W) ADJUSTED
EG1764* NAVD 88 -
EG1764 __________________________________________________________________
EG1764
EG1764_MARKER: 86 = CUPOLA
EG1764
EG1764 HISTORY - Date Condition Recov. By
EG1764 HISTORY - 1934 FIRST OBSERVED CGS
EG1764 HISTORY - 1977 GOOD MSHD
EG1764
EG1764 STATION DESCRIPTION
EG1764
EG1764''DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1934 (MAH)
EG1764''CENTER OF CUPOLA, WHICH HAS A SQUARE, WHITE BASE WITH A CLOCK, ON THE
EG1764''COURTHOUSE IN
EG1764''OXFORD.
EG1764''
EG1764''CUT IN FROM STATIONS MCLARTY, UNIVERSITY, LIVINGSTON AND THACKERS.
EG1764
EG1764 STATION RECOVERY (1977)
EG1764
EG1764''RECOVERY NOTE BY MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT 1977 (TDF)
EG1764''THE STATION WAS VISITED 1-14-77 AND WAS FOUND TO BE STANDING AND IN
EG1764''GOOD CONDITION.
EG1764''
EG1764''THE STATION IS LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF A SQUARE FORMED BY STTEETS
EG1764''IN THE CENTER OF THE BUSINESS DISTRICT OF OXFORD NEAR THE CENTER
EG1764''OF THE NORTH SIDE OF SECTION 28, T 8S, R 3W. IT IS CENTERED ATOP A
EG1764''CLOCK TOWER IN THE TOP CENTER OF A WHITE BUILDING.
EG1764''
EG1764''AIRLINE DISTANCE AND DIRECTION FROM NEAREST TOWN--IN OXFORD."