GLOUCESTER POINT

Station Information

Station ID: 597
Latitude: 37.246667
Longitude: -76.5
Coastline code: 960
Station code: 72
Country: UNITED STATES
Time span of data: 1950 – 2003
Completeness (%): 91
Date of last update: 26 Jan 2005

Green Arrow: Current Station
Yellow Marker: Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker: Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: GLPT, VAGP

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Gloucester Pt 960/072 RLR(1967) is 8.6m below BM7

Documentation added 2011-08-11

Using data extracted from the NOAA website the RLR diagram has been re-drawn. Primary benchmark appears to be 7624 F 1979 3.917m above gauge datum. This benchmark appears in Epoch 1960-1978 and 1983-2001 with the same levelling value. The benchmark BM7 2.429m above gauge datum appears in the early Epoch as NO 7 1950 again as 2.429m relative to the datum but does not appear in the 1983-2001 Epoch.

Documentation added 2015-02-23

NOAA website confirms that the station was removed in September 2003.

Data Authority

N.O.A.A. / N.O.S.
N/oes33, Ssmc4, Room 6531
1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring,
MD 20910