Subject: brooks county georgia exclave<br/>
Date: Mar 05, 2001 @ 21:32<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-512437884">this is the one also recently pointed out & mapped in by brendan in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.egroups.com/message/boundarypoint/1520">http://www.egroups.com/message/boundarypoint/1520</a><br/>
so how could i just drive right by & ignore it<br/>
<br/>
i am not convinced tho that the exclave was necessarily caused by a change<br/>
in the course of the stream<br/>
<br/>
it could also have come into existence without such a cause<br/>
say just owing to statutory carelessness or indifference or ignorance<br/>
as is known to have been the case with the kentucky bend exclave of kentucky<br/>
  per davids comments of some months ago<br/>
& as was probably also the case in a more nearly comparable situation<br/>
involving chester county pennsylvania<br/>
shown in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=440969&e=450090&s=50&size=m&symshow=n">http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=440969&e=450090&s=50&size=m&symshow=n</a><br/>
because there too the stream is known to have crossed & recrossed the depa<br/>
line more or less exactly as shown on modern maps ever since the first<br/>
survey of that boundary in 1701<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so anyway we traversed the brooks county exclave in both directions on its<br/>
only public road<br/>
which measures only a very few hundred feet in length<br/>
& which is actually just part of an interstate viaduct over the river &<br/>
flood plain<br/>
<br/>
all other access routes into the exclave are gated shut<br/>
<br/>
in effect it is completely sealed off<br/>
<br/>
moreover brooks county is never mentioned on any of the welcome signs<br/>
<br/>
in fact the whole situation there is confused<br/>
because there is every appearance that it is the river which forms the<br/>
interstate boundary<br/>
rather than the ellicott 31st parallel survey line<br/>
i mean if one didnt know better<br/>
<br/>
there is no pavement change other than the state line<br/>
nor any other clues i could spot<br/>
<br/>
toward one side of the bridge spanning the river is the sign<br/>
welcome to florida & madison county<br/>
& on the other side are<br/>
welcome to georgia & lowndes county<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
btw a similar oddity minus the exclave occurs on the caor boundary near canvor<br/>
where a bridged stream can also very easily be mistaken for the state boundary<br/>
which there too is actually a survey line very near the stream<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but the near denial of the existence of brooks county in this location<br/>
could be merely another minor case of georgia counties covering for each<br/>
other<br/>
as we probably saw with schley & taylor<br/>
or perhaps it is the state of georgia that is doing the simplification for<br/>
its own convenience here<br/>
since this is a state highway<br/>
<br/>
& if you add in the tiger versus topo disagreements<br/>
per arifs latest post<br/>
such  now you see them & now you dont  exclaves seem to be almost the rule<br/>
rather than the exception in georgia<br/>
<br/>
but i think we can eventually straighten all this out<br/>
<br/>
m</div>