Fork, San Clemente Island

Fork, San Clemente Island , California, William E. Greenwell, 1862; Stehman Forney, 1878.—On a knob about 400 meters from the beginning of a ridge which starts in the forks of a large gulch running in a southwest direction to the ocean and which comes out one-third of a mile east of Cove Point; 1 ⅓ miles southeast of the highest point of the island. In 1862 the station was marked by three stubs 22 inches from the center and 120° apart. In 1878 the center of station was marked by three as in note 3, p. 165. No reference stubs or stones were placed, but three holes ere drilled in the fixed rock; to the east, 12.8 feet; to the west, 13.4 feet, and to the south 11.1 feet. [[Annual Report of the Director, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, 1904]