Map precision follow-up — October 1, 2026
Map precision follow-up — October 1, 2026
This pass checked seven pins still labeled Exact site against the location claim actually supported by their sources. It changes precision and explanatory metadata only; coordinates remain as useful reference points. A map pin marked site is presented to readers as an exact location, whereas locality is explicitly approximate.
Corrections
| Pin | Reason for locality precision |
|---|---|
| Haunted Castle fire (1984) | NIST’s investigation appendix, C.3.15, identifies the fire at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township. The map point identifies the park; no former attraction footprint was documented for that point. |
| Hirst Brothers’ panicgrass rediscovery | The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment describes the plants within 0.10 hectares at the southern end of Hampton Furnace Pond. The existing point was expressly taken from the Hampton Furnace locality and had never been surveyed as the pond or population patch. |
| Carrie Brown / former East River Hotel | The map’s own source note identifies the point as a Catherine Slip street centroid. The demolished hotel footprint is not established by that street coordinate. The Manhattan context remains explicit in the note. |
| Long Branch squirrel monkey | The earlier geocoding found two candidates for 225 Atlantic Avenue about 170 m apart, and used their midpoint. The report described trees behind the address; the midpoint cannot be an exact animal sighting point. |
| Batsto Village | USGS GNIS feature 874539 is the named village point. The NJDEP Batsto Village History Trail map distinguishes the mansion, furnace site, glassworks site, mill and other buildings. The pin is a village reference, so its kind is now locality as well. |
| Bender summer home | The contemporary report, transcribed in the Craig Bender entry, places the home at Nautilus and Ocean avenues, Beachwood. It does not identify which parcel or door. The inherited coordinate is an intersection-area reference. |
| Eagle Tavern/Hotel | The mapped source is a USGS GNIS point for Eagle, the named locality, plus a community-map point. Neither source identifies the former tavern or hotel footprint. The site-specific title is retained to preserve the research relationship, while the precision and basis now disclose what is known. |
The USGS GNIS feature-class definitions describe a populated place as an area with clustered or scattered buildings rather than an individual structure. That distinction matters when a historic building’s name and a settlement’s name overlap.
Limits
No coordinate has been moved in this pass. A future exact-site upgrade would require a source locating the former attraction, plant patch, hotel footprint, or residential parcel itself. Coordinates and prior audit changes to unrelated records were preserved.