Subject: Re: Fwd: [BoundaryPoint] Web pages
Date: Nov 11, 2000 @ 20:39
Author: moc.il@li.com (moc.il@...)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, David Mark <dmark@g...> wrote:
> michael, good intuition that there might be more circular towns in Georgia
> USA!
>
> Circular city limits in Georgia:
>
> Leslie
> De Soto
> Plains
> Smithville (incomplete circle)
> Parrott
> Coleman
> Shellman
> Dawson
> Bronwood
> Sasser
> Leesbirg
> Warwick
> Arabi (has rectangle attached)
> Rebecca
> Jacksonville
> Denton
> Surrency
> Midway
> Darien (partial)
> Screven
> Braxton
> Ambrose
> Ty Ty
> Enigma
> Willacoochee
> ...
>
> ok, I'm getting bired, and have covered less than half of the state, just
> from the latitude of Plains to the latitude of Willacoochee . Let's just
> say that circular city limits are COMMON in Georgia!!
>
> Also, according to http://tiger.census.gov/, the western boundary of
> Richland, GA, is very strange, perhaps gerrymandered to pick up tax base?
>
> David
>
>
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, michael donner wrote:
>
> > thanx arif
> > this is wonderful
> > so georgia now leads the entire rest of the world in circle towns by a
> > revised vote count of 2 to 0
> >
> > i would like to call for another recount tho
> > because i have found several other municipalities in the greater atlanta
> > area which may also have been circle towns at one time
> > seeing as their present boundaries still contain arcs
> > & it seems likely that a complete recanvassing of the topo quads of the
> > entire state of georgia will turn up others perhaps still totally intact
> > like plains & cole city
> >
> > for i surmise what we have found here are the various traces of some sort
> > of uniform town formation process thruout that state perhaps connected with
> > a certain historical period or statute
> >
> >
> > about the national & global tripoint site
> > i mean i think we all together are it
> >
> > it is just a question of how we want to develop & where we want to go from here
> >
> >
> > & about politics no need to apologize
> > as it is the best multi sovereign game in town these days
> >
> > indeed jc & i have been glued to the tv since returning home tuesday from
> > our successful monumental news tour of the first state
> > a full report of which is soon to follow if we can ever tear ourselves away
> > for longer than just the commercial breaks
> >
> > m
> >
> >
> > >>From: Arif Samad <fHoiberg@y...>
> > >
> > >I have created a link page and added a few map sites
> > >there. Unfortunately, I still do not have a tripoint
> > >site. I didn't find an all-encompassing US or world
> > >tripoint site in the Boundarypoint link page either or
> > >maybe I just missed it. Please mention it to me if
> > >you find one.
> > >Mike, also check out my new geographical oddity, as I
> > >believe you were collecting them. I realize I am
> > >about a day and a half early. By the way, I am not
> > >apologizing for my shameless political plug.
> > >Arif
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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