Because it is submerged, a monument commemorating the point is adjacent to the nearest roadway and located on the state line between East Liverpool, Ohio and Ohioville, Pennsylvania.

It is inscribed "1,112 feet south of this spot was the point of beginning for surveying the Public Lands of the United States.

The ordinance directed the Geographer of the United States, Thomas Hutchins, to survey an initial east-west base line.

Hutchins began in 1786, using as his starting point a stake on north bank of the Ohio River placed by a 1785 survey team from the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania to fix their common north-south boundary (now the boundary between Pennsylvania and the northern tip of West Virginia).

Hutchins' work, completed in 1787, established the Seven Ranges, with a baseline extending about 42 miles (68 km) westwards of the north-south line.