CONTROL STATION DATA

HARVARD UNIVERSITY BASE MAPPING / GIS PROJECT

Monument reported missing 2/2007

STATION:

NYOX13

LATITUDE:

42 22 48.88143 N

LONGITUDE:

71 06 55.32217 W

Horizontal Datum is North American Datum 1983

Vertical Datum is North American Datum 1929

Massachusetts State Plane Coordinates, Mainland Zone

NORTHING:

2963825.208 FEET

EASTING:

760089.090 FEET

ELEVATION:

24.00 FEET

NORTHING:

903375.730 METERS

EASTING:

231675.618 METERS

ELEVATION:

7.32 METERS

DESCRIPTION:

At Cambridge, atop a small retaining wall between Palfrey Hall and the Biomedical Nuclear Laboratory in the North Yard of the Harvard University campus. Access to this area is from Oxford Street approximately 100 feet North of its intersection with Everett Street. The station is situated directly behind the Laboratory Building, approximately 36 feet from the Southwest corner of Palfrey Hall. A standard 2" brass tablet set in the top of the 4' high retaining wall inscribed "Harvard University Geodetic Monument GPS 1992" and stamped NYOX13.

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