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The Meades Ranch Triangulation Station is a survey marker in Osborne County [2] in the state of Kansas in the Midwestern United States. The marker was initially placed in 1891. From 1901, it was the reference location for establishing a system of horizontal measurement in the United States, known as geodetic datum.
Mead Ranch is a census-designated place (CDP) in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The population was 38 at the 2010 census. [3] Geography.
Location within Osborne County and Kansas. ... Meades Ranch Triangulation Station, the geodetic base point for the North American Datum of 1927 , ...
I agree with "Meades Ranch Triangulation Station". It is noted as one of the historic names on the NRHP nomination form, and it solves the problem of the misleading Meades Ranch name. Keep the redirect from "Geodetic Center of the United States" though, as that is the NRIS name. Generic1139 01:27, 26 May 2015 (UTC) Seems reasonable to me.
It established the Meades Ranch survey marker, also called the Geodetic Center of the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Transcontinental Traverse, commonly known as the "TCT", grew out of smaller surveying projects that the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) conducted for the United States Air Force missile-tracking program in an area near ...
Paramount Network. It sure is. The Dutton family's home is actually located at Chief Joseph Ranch in Darby, Montana, which features a 6,000-square-foot lodge. Per the official website, it was ...
Trump’s planned late-afternoon appearance at Calhoun Ranch, just outside the city of Coachella, as temperatures there top 100 degrees, caused head-scratching among local Republicans given the ...
The North American Datum of 1927 is defined by the latitude and longitude of an initial point (Meades Ranch Triangulation Station in Kansas), the direction of a line between this point and a specified second point, and two dimensions that define the spheroid.