The North American Datum of 1927 ( NAD 27 ) is " the horizontal control datum for the United States that was defined by a location and azimuth on the Clarke spheroid of 1866, with origin at ( the survey station ) Meades Ranch ( Kansas ).

The geoidal height at Meades Ranch was assumed to be zero.

" Geodetic positions on the North American Datum of 1927 were derived from the ( coordinates of and an azimuth at Meades Ranch ) through a readjustment of the triangulation of the entire network in which Laplace azimuths were introduced, and the Bowie method was used.

* Meades Ranch, Kansas, the geodetic base point for the North American Datum of 1927 ( NAD 27 ), which was used as a reference point until 1983.

* Meades Ranch, Kansas, the geodetic base point for the North American Datum of 1927 ( NAD 27 ), which was used as a reference point until 1983.

* Meades Ranch, Kansas, the geodetic base point for the North American Datum of 1927 ( NAD 27 ), which was used as a reference point until 1983.

Description: Location of Meades Ranch, the geodetic base point on the Clarke Ellipsoid for the North American Datum of 1927 ( NAD 27 ) at ( 39. 224079 ,-98. 541807 ).

Meades Ranch is a location in Kansas, United States that was designated as the geodetic base point for the North American Datum of 1927 ( NAD 27 ).

A roadside marker describing Meades Ranch is located seventeen miles ( 27 km ) north-northwest of Meades Ranch in a park just east of the junction of U. S. 24 and U. S. 281 in northeastern Osborne, Kansas.

Meades Ranch is about 40 miles ( 64 km ) south of the geographic center of the forty-eight contiguous U. S. states which is near Lebanon, Kansas.

For the purpose of the NAD 27, the geoidal height geoid separation at Meades Ranch was assumed to be zero so that the geoid ( mean sea level ) and the ellipsoid intersect at that location.

# REDIRECT Meades Ranch, Kansas

# relative to NAD 27 ( North American Datum 1927 ), an ellipsoid of revolution that is at mean sea level beneath triangulation station Meades Ranch, Kansas ( not earth-centered );

# REDIRECT Meades Ranch, Kansas

The critic Jonathan Meades has scathingly referred to the Millennium Dome as a " Museum of Toxic Waste ", and apart from the dome itself, the project included the reclamation of the entire Greenwich Peninsula.

The documentary series Abroad Again in Britain by Jonathan Meades focused on Cragside in episode 2 ( 2005 ).

Design critic Jonathan Meades described the XM as the last gothic car, as quoted by Stephen Bayley in " Design Made Visible " ( 2007 ).

The actor was a longtime close friend of entertainer Michael Jackson and paid regular visits to his Neverland Ranch, resting there for weeks at a time.

There is also an urban legend that the first game of polo in America was played in Boerne, Texas at retired British officer Captain Glynn Turquand's famous Balcones Ranch.

Hill's adopted son Ross was killed in an accident in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1990 while the actor was preparing to film Lucky Luke on the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe.

One of the new campuses was to be in the Los Angeles area ; the location selected was Irvine Ranch, an area of agricultural land bisecting Orange County from north to south.

On July 10, 1913, a record was measured at the Weather Bureau's observation station at Greenland Ranch ( now the site for the Furnace Creek Inn ), the highest temperature ever recorded in the world.

The lowest temperature recorded at Greenland Ranch was in January 1913.

* YFZ Ranch Temple was built by The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( FLDS ) Church just outside of Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas.

Agent Orange was the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

The motorcycle chase was shot during post-production at Mount Tamalpais and Fairfax near Skywalker Ranch.

However, after spending half of the album's budget on drugs, alcohol, and food the band was forced to fire their original producer and produce the album themselves, at the Indigo Ranch Studios, in Malibu, California.

Among the filming locations were Lone Pine, Calif., Buffalo Flats in Malibu, Calif., the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, Calif., and the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif. For the climactic half-hour battle sequence at the end of the movie, an elaborate set was built in the Iverson Gorge, part of the Iverson Movie Ranch, to depict Mogala, the mountain stronghold of Mohammed Khan.

The bulk of the shooting was done at the Arthur Ranch in the San Francisco Valley, which was used as Aunt Elizabeth's estate for interior and exterior scenes during the day and at night.

Beginning at the Arthur Ranch shoot Grant and Hepburn often ad-libbed their dialogue and production was often delayed due to the two stars ruining shots by making each other laugh.

The first target of the WSGA was Nate Champion at the KC Ranch ( of which today's town of Kaycee is a namesake ), a small rancher who was active in the efforts of small ranchers to organize a competing roundup.

the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 ) was set in a neighborhood above Northridge known as Porter Ranch.

But in an odd sense, it was never Isaac Van Nuys's town as land speculators simply borrowed the name of his holding, the Van Nuys Ranch.

The name " Irvine " is a reference to James Irvine, a landowner who administered the Irvine Ranch.

The original name of the airport, Rancho Boyeros, meaning the "( Bull ) Drover Ranch ", was in reference to the name of the plains / territory where the airport was being built.

Following the traditions of Origin Systems, Chris Roberts ' residence at the outskirts of Austin, Texas was aptly named " Commander's Ranch ", a reference to the Wing Commander series he created.

The latter is a large north-to-south mountain range with many fin-backed jagged peaks, a reference to the famous Cadillac Ranch sculpture in Amarillo, Texas.

* The " Lazy I Ranch " is a reference to David Byrne's musical concert tour that he was on that year, the Lazy Eye Tour.

Curtis is also shown as living in rural Californian ranch which houses a high-tech visual effects workshop, a reference to Lucas ' Skywalker Ranch.

Originally known as Cold Spring Ranch until 1902 ( because of an icy spring ), the town sits on State Route 4 and historically was a stopping point along the toll road between Murphys and Ebbetts Pass, often serving as a resort for visitors to what is now Calaveras Big Trees State Park.

Alexa Albert, who conducted interviews with several women in the Mustang Ranch from 1993 to 1996, reported that at one point, the brothel required all women to have pimps, who were thought to make the women work harder.

Horse Ranch Mountain, the highest point in Zion National Park, summit at 8, 726 foot ( 2, 660 m ).

At this point, the Spanish set up a defensive square around the Chacabuco Ranch.

A secondary access point is Beachwood Canyon Drive, the terminus of which directs hikers to Sunset Ranch Stables.

A major relocation project for the Flagg Ranch concession operation ( consisting of a lodge, gas station, camp store, cabins and a campground ) from along the Snake River to a point higher up and less visible from the road was completed in 2002.