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