where are you? Elevation 3197.553 feet above mean sea level
North 33 degrees 24.633 West 101 degrees 50.500
Street address: 19th and Crickets Avenue, West Wall of interior Courtyard of the Buddy Holly Center (former Lubbock Railway Depot)
The U. S. Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey placed this marker in Lubbock, Texas in 1933. Now known as the National Geodetic Survey, this federal agency places permanent survey marks throughout the United States to mark exact horizontal and vertical position, defined by latitude, longitude and height coordinates in relation to the shape and surface of the earth. The 1945 description for the benchmark pictured above read "1.9 miles southeast along the Ft Worth and Denver City Railway from the station at Lubbock, Lubbock County, about 8 1/2 rails east of a block signal, about 6 1/2 rails west of the crossing of the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway, about 3 rails east of a corner of the right-of-way fence." Geocaching is a popular hobby with the goal to find NGS benchmarks like these or to locate a cache using GPS coordinates.
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