GC30Z75 S 294
Type: Multi | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Tom.dog @ | Hide Date: 07/26/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 04.706 W104° 50.438 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
     

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First cache in my NGS Benchmark series.

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I wanted to make a series to show geocachers more of our nation's benchmarks. Though they can be found in every county in the continental U.S. benchmarks are are just another little known survey tool to the public. But when you look on the NGS site or Geocaching.com you can see every detail about them. There is also description for each that tells exactly where they are. These descriptions interest me the most, at times you have to wonder where in the world did the railroad track go that was 50 feet from a certain benchmark years ago. I hope that this series gives a historical insight to geocachers of what our country looked like in the years past.

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KK0272
Location: El Paso county, CO
Designation: S 294
Marker Type: bench mark disc
Setting: set into the top of a round concrete monument
Stability: May hold, but of type commonly subject to surface motion.


Documented History (by the NGS)

01/01/1952 by CGS (MONUMENTED)
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1952 2 MI SE FROM MONUMENT. 1.0 MILE SOUTH ALONG U.S. HIGHWAYS 85 AND 87 FROM THEIR JUNCTION WITH STATE HIGHWAY 50 AT MONUMENT, THENCE 1.0 MILE EAST ALONG A GRAVELED ROAD, 30 FEET SOUTH OF THE CENTER LINE OF THE ROAD, 10 FEET EAST OF THE CENTER OF A WIRE GATE, 1 FOOT NORTH OF A FENCE, 3 FEET WEST OF A WITNESS POST, SET IN THE TOP OF A CONCRETE POST WHICH PROJECTS 0.8 FOOT ABOVE THE GROUND.

01/01/1983 by NGS (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1983 RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.

03/26/1998 by USPSQD (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1998 RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.

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To find the cache look for my other cache near the benchmark (GC25ET1). On the back of the log I have written coordinates to the final which is nearby.

Additional Waypoints
BM30Z75 - Benchmark S 294
N 39° 04.699 W 104° 50.395
You can find the benchmark here with GC25ET1 close by.

05/30/2019 By LostinDenver
Today @WindAtMyBack and I traveled through evening rush hour traffic to Monument, Colorado, to grab a bunch of caches. This is a great time of year and Monument is a beautiful place to witness the openness of mother nature. I know that phone reception is spotty out here, so we downloaded a list. During our journey we saw one garter snake, several hawks, crows, and a bunch of smaller birds. The weather was moderated with a very light, occasional rain and constant cloud cover. Great weather for caching.
I love it when things just work out. I wasn't planning on doing this multi. But when we were near it I read the description and saw that part of it was already in my plans. We grabbed the coords and made the quick find. Well done. TFTC!

03/30/2019 By Back Country Horsemen
Wow was that almost an exercise in futility. I had found the referenced stage one cache several years ago & thought I had entered the correct coordinates into my phone. Finally got back here but a pretty good snow cover had us baffled so I went back to the other cache & found out I had entered the wrong coordinates & we were only at the BM! Fix that mistake & the cache was soon in hand. Brrrrrr

11/07/2018 By PiTime
Had no problem with the traditional 1st stage and was soon on my way to this one. Decided to walk instead of trying to reposition the truck. There was a lot of traffic along this road today and I was looking back a lot to make sure I gave myself enough clearance in between each vehicle.

Before arriving at the final coordinates, I was able to come across the benchmark that the cache is centered around. I made sure to get a good picture with that as well, I wish discovering those was easier through the Geocaching site.

The cache was a fast find and I'm thankful for that because today was a cold one. Even dressed properly for the weather, I still felt the walk back to the truck. Winter is definitely around the corner.

TFTC SL!

09/23/2017 By Huff-Suter
Today Trea and I are grabbing as many caches we can in the Colorado Springs Area. We just got back from a week long roadtrip to Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana and figured we would stay local and pick up some numbers. THANK Tom.dog FOR PLACING THE CACHE FOR US TO FIND!!! September 23, 2017 1:51 PM 9296

09/23/2017 By Trea
Huff-Suter and I just got back from our week long geo-trip to the Dakotas and Montana. Today we are caching locally. Thanks, Tom.dog, for placing for our geo-fun. Great multi.

07/04/2017 By Kerewin0430
Happy 4th of July! Took a little while to find the benchmark because I didn't really read the directions (oops)...but was eventually successful. Thanks for placing this multi!

06/18/2017 By psych01
TFTC & allowing this to be one of the easier multi's in this area. YEA!

11/14/2016 By k9jayhawk
Found while working on a day for a Baker's Dozen Challenge...TFTC SL