24 JPN
State/County/Quad: PA/Lackawanna/ScrantonLocation: N 41°23.902' W 075°37.610'
Elevation: 1318.169 ft.
Designation: 24 JPN 1942
Setting: Rock Outcrop
Type: Bench Mark Disk
Year: 1942
Recovered: 24 December 2003, 8 October 2004
My official report to USGS
Earlier this week, I'd been on my way home from a walk at Lake Scranton when I happened to notice some yellow paint on a rock outcrop just off the highway. I checked my USGS sheets and maps to see if there might possibly be a benchmark disk in the general area, and I was pleased to see that there was a mark that appeared to match. On this ugly, rainy Christmas Eve morning I took the quick drive up Route 307 to check out the painted rock outcrop. I parked in an empty lot belonging to a garden apartment complex and walked for only a few hundred feet through the woods until I emerged on the rock outcrop-and the mark was at my feet.
USGS Official Description, 1942:
Scranton; about 1.0 mi SE. of E. & W. V. RR. overhead bridge over State Highway 307; 420 ft W. of intersection of hwy. and rd. to Scranton Spring Brook Water Co. reservoir; 40 ft NE. of rd.; in top of large rock outcrop about 4 ft higher than level of rd.; standard tablet stamped "24 JPN 1942 1318". Elev. 1318.169 ft.
Reference mark; 18 ft W. of tablet; 30 ft NE. of rd.; about 4 ft higher than level of rd.; on top of outcrop; chiseled square. Elev. 1317.87 ft.
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...The disk is in good condition. |
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...The mark on the outcrop, looking southwest across Route 307. |
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 A yellow X has been painted over the mark, possibly to make its location visible from above. ... |
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 The reference mark, found as described 18 feet west of the station. ... |
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...Looking south to Route 307, reference mark visible. |
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...Looking east from the reference mark (in the foreground) to the station disk (in the background). |
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