Subject: Re: Fwd: [BoundaryPoint] Web pages
Date: Nov 11, 2000 @ 22:54
Author: David Mark (David Mark <dmark@...>)
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I would suspect a state law facoring them. Rules for county and local
government are set by each state. It seems very rational once you think
about it, that the city limits should be a circle centered on the city...
I'll ask a Geographer friend at University of georgia.

David

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 moc.il@... wrote:

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