U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Benchmark
[2010, Dunlap]
Text last updated on 31 January 2017 | At the base of what may have been the breeches buoy tower or the signal mast at the Peaked Hill Bars Coast Guard Station site, a disk is inset into a concrete foundation indicating that the place is a benchmark of the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. It is designated No. 5 of 1949. “For elevation write to the director, Washington, D.C. $250 Fine or Imprisonment for Disturbing This Mark.” The National Geodetic Survey has a “Peaked Hill Bars CG Signal Mst” mark, MY3861, in its database, but the latitude and longitude do not coincide with this point. It is described as having been “monumented” in 1933, and “not found” in 2001.
¶ Republished on 4 December 2023.