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University of Nevada, Reno. Archived from the original (Background and maps of the San Bernardino and Mt. Diablo meridians) on 2012-10-18; Michael A. Duffy, PLS. "Three Monuments, One Initial Point" (Published in the September 2002 Issue #135 of the California Surveyor). Mount Diablo Surveyors Historical Society
Meridians and baselines of California: Humboldt, Mt. Diablo, and San Bernardino The Humboldt meridian in California, longitude 124° 07' 10" west from Greenwich, intersects the base line on the summit of Mount Pierce at latitude 40° 25' 02" north (co-ordinates in NAD27 datum), [1] and governs the surveys in the northwestern corner of California, lying west of the Coast Range of mountains, and ...
Thus, for example, the description "T1SR20E S13 MDM" reads as follows: Township 1 South, Range 20 East, Section 13, Mount Diablo Meridian. That is, the 13th section in the first township south of the baseline (in this case, the Mount Diablo Baseline) and the 20th township east of the principal meridian (the Mount Diablo Meridian).
Aerial view of the Los Medanos foothills and Mount Diablo from over Suisun Bay at Concord, California. Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is south of Clayton and northeast of Danville. It is an isolated upthrust peak of 3,849 feet (1,173 meters ...
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The Mount Diablo Meridian, established in 1851, is a principal meridian extending north and south from its initial point atop Mount Diablo in California at W 121° 54.845. Established under the U.S. Public Land Survey System , it is used to describe lands in most of northern California and all of Nevada . [ 1 ]
Mount Diablo Creek is a 14.3-mile-long (23.0 km) [2] northwest-flowing stream originating on the north flank of Mount Diablo. Its dozen small tributaries gather near Clayton before flowing through Concord and the Concord Naval Weapons Station , ultimately ending in tidelands on the southern shore of Suisun Bay in Contra Costa County .
Diablo Grande originally was a 33,000-acre master plan with five villages and a convention center, but only one village was authorized for development and the project went into bankruptcy in 2008.