Feature Name ID Class County Latitude Longitude State Mapsort by this column Ele(ft) BGN Entry Date
Contention 24378 Populated Place Cochise 314608N 1101207W AZ Land 3799 - 08-FEB-1980
Geographic Names Information System Feature Detail Report
Feature ID: 24378
Name: Contention
Class: Populated Place
Citation: Collected during Phase I data compilation (1976-1981), primarily from
U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K), various edition dates, and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files.
Entry Date: 08-Feb-1980
Elevation(ft/m): 3799/1158
Census Code: 15325
Class Code: U6
Counties
Sequence County Code State Code Country
1 Cochise 003 Arizona 04 US
Coordinates (One point per USGS topographic map containing the feature, NAD83)
Sequence Latitude(DEC) Longitude(DEC) Latitude(DMS) Longitude(DMS) Map Name
1 31.7689775 -110.2020211 314608N 1101207W Land
I just threw the name into google maps and got a similar location
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=contention,+az&ie=UTF8&ll=31.770281,-110.209436&spn=0.029334,0.056734&z=14&iwloc=addr&om=1
I have this book...
http://www.amazon.com/GPS-Waypoints-Arizona-Michael-Ferguson/dp/1892182041/ref=sr_1_23/103-0849616-5649452?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189992341&sr=8-23
It lists Contention as N 31° 46.08 W110° 12.05 just as Bill also found.
Oh yeah... If you've never seen this book, it's jam packed with coordinates for just about everything but geocache waypoints. It looks like they've published a few more states that the original couple when I bought the book.
Jake - Team A.I.On 9/16/07, Bill Burkett < wburkett@yahoo.com> wrote:____________________________________________________________I have an Excel worksheet that lists a "Contention" northwest of Tombstone at N31 46.080 W110 12.050. Nothing there on Garmin's Topo 2008, but the waypoint is right along a Southern Pacific rail line.
----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Daines < rjdaines@gmail.com>
To: Az-Geocaching <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 5:57:38 PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Contention, AZ
Yes, I'm bored again and watching the original "3:10 to Yuma". I see that Contention is a ghost town now, anyone have good coordinates to it.
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