32 JPN

32 JPN

USGS Bench Mark Disk
Not Found as of August 16, 2026

Spatial/elevation data

Coordinates N 41.4936352° W 75.69892416° (estimate)
Elevation 1302.381 ft.
Location Pennsylvania
   Lackawanna County
      Scranton Quad

Mark description

Type Bench Mark Disk
Setting Concrete Curbing
Monumented 1942 by USGS
Description (USGS) Clarks Summit; in frontyard of Clarks Summit-Clarks Green High School; 75 ft SW. of boys entrance; 36 ft SE. of center of Grove Street; in concrete curbing around 30-in. tree; standard tablet stamped “33 JN 1942 1302”
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Narrative and photographs

Even though this mark is long gone, I still wanted to document it here. This was my elementary school (as well as my mother’s, and the building was my grandmother’s and uncle’s high school). I wish I’d known about benchmarks in the early 1980s, because there is a chance the mark was still in place at that time. I’ll show an image of the remaining piece of concrete curbing surrounding one of the trees. This may have been the one that held the mark (if so, it was on the piece that has broken off), or there may have been a similar curb surrounding another tree in the same area. The description is not precise enough to say for sure.

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