BASSWOOD HILL
Wisconsin - Langlade County - Wisconsin Department of Conservation - 33N-10E-6
Removed
National Geodetic Survey
DESIGNATION - BASSWOOD HILL LOT 1940
PID - QM0714
STATE/COUNTY- WI/LANGLADE
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - ENTERPRISE (1973)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY US FOREST SERVICE 1940 (KBJ)
STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF ANTIGO,
AND 4-1/2 MILES WEST OF SUMMIT LAKE, IN NORTHEAST QUARTER OF
SEC. 6, T. 33 N., R. 10 E., ON A LOW WOODED HILL. STATION IS
A STANDARD 100-FOOT U.S. FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUT TOWER MADE OF
STRUCTURAL STEEL WITH AN ENCLOSED OBSERVATION PLATFORM AT ITS
TOP. IT IS 21.717 METERS NORTHWEST OF TRIANGULATION STATION
BASSWOOD 1934, AND 62.5 FEET NORTH-NORTHEAST OF A U.S.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BENCH MARK. THE LOOKOUT TOWER HAS BEEN MOVED
FROM THE SITE IT OCCUPIED IN 1934.
TO REACH FROM SUMMIT LAKE, GO NORTH ON U.S. HIGHWAY 45 FOR
0.5 MILE THEN GO WEST ON COUNTY ROAD T FOR 7.1 MILES TO ROAD
TO RIGHT AND SMALL SIGN BASSWOOD HILL LOOKOUT TOWER. TURN
RIGHT ON LOOKOUT TOWER ROAD FOR 0.7 MILE TO STATION.