PennDOT (Unstamped, #1)

Coordinates: N 41.426883° W 75.614617°
Location: Pennsylvania
   Lackawanna County
      Olyphant Quad
Elevation: Unknown
Type: Survey Control Mark
Setting: Bridge Bannister
Monumented: Unknown
Monumented By: PennDOT
Status: Recovered
Condition: Good as of May 25, 2013
  • Official PennDOT Description: Unavailable.
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On our way home from shopping in Dunmore, Rich and I stopped at the Reeves Street bridge to see if we could clear up the confusion over W 278 (LY1589). Over the past few years several geocachers have logged this NGS mark as Found, but their photos all showed a PennDOT disk instead of an NGS disk. We discovered that they were indeed finding and logging the wrong disk. We could find no sign of W 278, and a 2002 recovery from PennDOT on the official datasheet confirms that W 278 was removed when the bridge was replaced. It’s not clear when this unstamped disk was set.