The Meades Ranch Triangulation Station is a survey marker in Osborne County in the state of Kansas in the Midwestern United States. The marker was initially placed in 1891. From 1901, it was the refer
Meades Ranch triangulation station, ca. 1940
Horizontal survey control network in the United States in 1931
Marker at Osborne rest area, incorporating replica of Meades Ranch station marker disc
The geographic center of the United States is a point approximately 20 miles north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota at. It has been regarded as such by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and th
Meades Ranch Triangulation Station
…horizontal datum: the point relative to which all land measurements in the nation were made. The choice was based on the station's location near the geographic center of the U.S. and near the intersection of the two arcs of triangulation, and because it minimized the number of changes in previously published positions. Its…
Belle Fourche, South Dakota
The old marker for Geographic Center of the U.S. at Smith Center, Kansas in 1918
The survey marker of the geographic center of the 50 United States
The marker located near Lebanon, Kansas