Table 3. Tide data used in establishing the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) 

 of 1929 (from Harris and Lindsay, 1957; Rappleye, 1932). 



Station 



Period of record used 



Elevation of local MSL 





(m) 



(ft) 



Galveston, Tex. 



1 Dec. 1903 to 29 Nov. 1906 



0.00 



0.00 



Biloxi, Miss. 



1882; 1884; 1896-98 



-0.09 



-0.30 



Pensacola, Fla. 



1924-26 (compared with Key West) 



-0.05 



-0.16 



Cedar Key, Fla. 



1892-93 



-0.08 



-0.26 



St. Augustine, Fla. 



1892-93 



-0.27 



-0.89 



Fernandina, Fla. 



1898-1923 (25 mo) 



-0.20 



-0.66 



Brunswick, Ga. 



1904-05, 1908-09 



-0.16 



-0.52 



Norfolk, Va. 



1908-1915 



-0.14 



-0.46 



Old Point Comfort, Va. 



1853-1878 



-0.28 



-0.92 



Annapolis, Md. 



Two 1-month series 1875, 1888 



-0.17 



-0.56 



Baltimore, Md. 



1903-1921 



+0.18 



-0.59 



Atlantic City, N.J. 



1912-26 



+0.03 



+0.10 



Perth Amboy^ 





+0.01 



+0.03 



Boston, Mass. 



Aug. 1921 to July 1923 



+0.07 



+0.23 



Portland, Maine 



1915-25 



+0.12 



+0.39 



Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia 

 Father Point, Quebec'* 

 San Diego, Calif. 



3 



+0.05 

 +0.08 

 +0.20 

 +0.33 



+0.16 

 +0.26 

 +0.66 

 +1.08 







1906-08 



San Pedro, CaUf. 



1924-25; 1927-28 



+0.31 



+1.02 



San Francisco, Calif. 



1898-1913 



+0.34 



+1.12 



Fort Stevens, Oreg. 



1925-26 



+0.59 



+1.94 



Seattle, Wash. 



1899-1917 



+0.48 



+1.57 



Anacortes, Wash. 



1 June 1921 to 31 May 1924 



+0.45 



+1.48 



Vancouver, British Columbia 





+0.50 



+1.64 





Prince Rupert, British Columbia 





+0.58 



+1.90 



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Relative to Galveston, Texas. 

 ^No tide gage located on Perth Amboy; a bench-mark elevation was held as determined by 

 leveling from the tide gage at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. 



Dates for the Canadian tide gage are unavailable. 

 '*Pointe Au Fere. 



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