Subject: depa arc & wedge
Date: Sep 23, 2000 @ 00:56
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>> Secondly, we all know of the jog in the CT-MA border.indeed please forgive the interruption but are you sure of this
>> Is there any other international or state border where
>> the same line continues as a border on both sides of a
>> jog.
>
>There are many "jogs" that are too small to show up
>on the scales that that one shows up on, depending on
>how you wish to define "jog" (see some western states)
>although I don't have those maps in front of me now,
>so I cannot claim the lines continue exactly straight
>afterwords (although I'm sure they do, at least
>partially).
>
>On the DE arc, its interesting to note that the arc
>did not go far enough west to touch the northeastern
>corner of MD (the current tripoint)
>yes & this point of contact was nominally demdpa from 1850 to 1893 but
>and eventually
>contacted the MD border farther south.
>it never was actually claimed by pa
>This
>left a tiny fading sliver between the two called
>the "wedge" that was claimed by PA (since it
>naturally was an extension of PA territory).
>Old maps of PA (those before 1921, at least theyes it really looks as if pa had a false whisker til 1893
>ones that I've seen) will show this mapped as PA
>territory (the dispute was resolved in favor of
>DE in that year, IIRC). There's a local map store
>here that has an excellent copy of one of those
>old maps. Its really cool.
>good point as the west end forbids trespass
>Also, Delaware Valley Orienteering Association has
>a 1:10000 scale orienteering map that shows the
>demdpa tripoint, and makes navigating to it via
>public land, rather than from private land on the
>MD side, fairly trivial.