Sundial 764
- Dial City: Coalinga
- Dial State/Province: California
- Dial Country: USA
- Lat: 36° 9.393' N
- Dial Nr: 764
- Dial Type: Horizontal Dial
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 120° 20.932' W
- Dial Owner: City of Coalinga
- Dial Designer: John Carmichael and Glenn Mitchell
- Dial Maker: John Carmichael and City of Coalinga
- Dial Date: 2010
- Location:
- Coalinga Centennial Park El Rancho Blvd. at Posa Chanet Blvd. Coalinga
- Description:
- A 26 inch diameter hand-carved, lacquer-coated beige sandstone horizontal dial set flush in a massive cast concrete pedestal. Dial has a thick stone gnomon, hour, half-hour and quarter-hour lines with Arabic ST hour numerals corrected for longitude. Face is marked with symbols showing sunrise and sunset times on solstices and equinoxes and with location coordinates. Dial face includes a hand carved graphic of a Valley Oak tree, symbolic of the San Joaquin Valley dial location. The dial is embedded in a three foot cube cast concrete pedestal bearing a bas relief image of a horned toad, mascot of the Coalinga High School and the city centennial dates 1906 - 2006.
- Inscription:
- COALINGA CENTENNIAL 1906 2006
Last Update:
7/30/2012 10:25