great news & research david
& cool use of this nice toy too
so do you think circle towns is a national thing
or only a bubba thing
or what
perhaps it just depends on where the leading edge of municipal
incorporation lay at the time the public land system kicked in regionally
in any case so far it looks like
georgia has gold
south carolina silver
& north carolina bronze
m
>
>
>many circular city limits in South carolina as well!
>Go to <http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl/>
>http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl/
>scroll down to the botton, and search for Estill, SC
>click on the "map" link in the result
>click "on" for "City Labels" and click redraw,
>zoom out by a factor of two to see some more...
>
>David
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:38:43 -0500
>From: Fred Broome <fbroome@...>
>To: David Mark <dmark@...>
>Subject: RE: circular cities in georgia???
>
>Hi David,
>
>Back in the days of my youth as a grad student at Univ. of Ga. we had it
>described to us. How much of this is true, I do not know. Seems that it
>was much easier to say the city limits of the town went x-miles from a
>specific corner of the main building in town, usually the county courthouse
>or city hall and usually from the cornerstone of that building. Remember,
>meets and bounds was the common method of surveying. This seemed to avoid
>conflict with property ownership. Believe me, the rationality was not based
>on von Thuenen or even Ricardo's land Rent theory, if anything, it was a
>convience. You should find quite a few of the small towns with that type of
>original boundary, not just in GA, but in SC as well. Call up TIGER mapper
>and look at Sylvania, GA (just up-river from Savannah) and then back out
>until you can see SC. Notice the pattern is there as well. You can see
>this on old U.S.G.S. maps as well.
>
>It would be interesting to see how far this pattern goes North and West.
>Probably worth a cultural geography paper.
>
>I'll see if I have anyother info in my old notes or papers and forward it.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Fred
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Mark [mailto:dmark@...]
>Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 6:03 PM
>To: Fred Broome
>Subject: circular cities in georgia???
>
>
>
>Fred, great to see you in Savannah!
>
>Someone pointed out two cities/villages in georgia that have circular city
>limits, and wondered if there were more. I decided to search on the
>TIGER map server and found lots of them, such as those listed below.
>
>But, do you know the history of why this unusual yet highly rational (cf.
>Von Thuenen!) form of city limit is so common in georgia while rare in the
>rest of the world??
>
>David
>
>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
>...
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