Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] KYTNVA was Re: frederick md now martinsburg wv
Date: Oct 11, 2004 @ 20:05
Author: Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@yahoo.com>)
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>http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.72417&lon=-77.47167
> yes
> thanx
> & there are of course many slight divagations of the
> various state &
> county boundaries from the true blue ridge
> not only here around frfrwa
> the apparent starting place
> but all down the line
>
> & the 1824 survey separating these 2 maryland
> counties must have
> been just as much of a rationalization of the actual
> ridge line as
> the 1997 vawv survey is at & below mdvawv
>
> but funny that the usgs still hasnt gotten wind of
> this
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G.
> McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > At http://tinyurl.com/5jpd4 there is an 18-page
> PDF of a technical
> study of
> > water availability in the Monocacy River
> watershed, which lies
> east of the Blue
> > Ridge divide in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The
> second and third
> sentences of
> > the document state:
> >
> > "This drainage area includes significant portions
> of Frederick
> County, Maryland;
> > Carroll County, Maryland; and Adams County,
> Pennsylvania. It also
> includes a
> > small portion of Montgomery County, Maryland; a
> very small portion
> of Washington
> > County, Maryland; and Franklin County,
> Pennsylvania."
> >
> > That "very small portion of Washington County"
> proves that the
> > Frederick-Washington boundary must necessarily
> stray east of the
> actual drainage
> > divide. A watershed map on page 3 of the PDF
> shows such deviation
> at the
> > boundary's north end as it reaches its tripoint
> with
> Pennsylvania. This
> > probably somehow accounts for the discrepancy that
> you noted on
> the USGS map.
> >
> > Washington County was created from Frederick
> County in 1776, and
> their common
> > boundary was surveyed in 1824. Field notes of the
> survey are
> listed in the
> > on-line catalog of the Maryland State Archives.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 11:04 AM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] frederick md
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > fresh virgin multipoint today class a
> > >
>
> > > where the mason dixon line crosses the blue_______________________________
> ridge
> > > tho i only just realized they even do cross
> > > yikes
> > > at the interstate tricounty point of franklin
> county pennsylvania
> > > with frederick & washington counties of maryland
> > > aka frfrwa or mdpa3frfrwa or technically
> us2mdpa3frfrwa
> > > marked by a shiny round topped stone post in
> someones side yard
> > >
> > > & tho i cant tell whether the blue ridge itself
> may continue in
> the
> > > scramble of mountains still farther north from
> here
> > > this point does mark the northern limit of the
> use of the blue
> ridge
> > > as a state &or county boundary
> > >
> > > in fact frfrwa is exactly 1 tricounty point & 1
> state line north
> from
> > > mdvawv on the blue ridge
> > > & all very cleanly so
> > > seeing as the frwa county line completely
> transsects maryland
> along
> > > the blue ridge
> > >
> > > all of which you can see if you zoom out
> > >
> > > but if you zoom in
> > > you will find this topo is quite odd
> > > in showing the tripoint & the marker in 2
> different locations
> > >
> > > on the ground
> > > there is only an ordinary mdpa marker at the
> tripoint position
> shown
> > > on the topo
> > > but the true tripoint marker is the one shown
> about 50 yards
> farther
> > > east on the opposite side of the road
> > >
> > > marker 92 still farther east is a mason dixon
> milestone
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
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