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English: USGS Idaho Montana 1900 Scotchman Peak Packing. Survey Monuments. 1898 Photo.
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Source United States Government Printing Office
Author United States Geological Survey, No. 170, Department of the Interior.
Camera location48° 12′ 56.08″ N, 116° 02′ 56.07″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

USGS "Survey of the Boundary Line Between Idaho and Montana from the International Boundary to the Crest of the Bitterroot Mountains." Surveyed in 1897-1898. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey No. 170, Department of the Interior. Printed in 1900 by US Government Printing Office. Photographic and Drawn Plates (images) of the field work of the survey. Stone Survey Monuments. Iron Post Survey Monuments. Placed into the Public Domain by government of USA. Printed more than 114 years prior to time of upload.


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This photo was taken in 1898 near the Scotchman Peak survey station of the USGS Idaho Montana Boundary 1897 Survey Control Diagram of Triangulation from Spokane

USGS Idaho Montana Boundary 1897 Survey Control Diagram of Triangulation from Spokane Courthouse Astronomic Piers

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21 February 1900Gregorian

48°12'56.084"N, 116°2'56.069"W

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