Subject: Re: Shortest broken part of a shared state boundary<br/>
Date: May 11, 2003 @ 15:05<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-862134808">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;S.D. Rhodes&quot; <br/>
&lt;rhodent@i...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt;Now let&#39;s see if there is an answer, fractal, molecular, <br/>
&gt; &gt;whatever, for the shortest &lt;portion&gt; of a shared state <br/>
 </span></blockquote>boundary. <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt;Is it NC-VA near Mackay Island?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; No.  That&#39;s about a mile and a half.  There are numerous river <br/>
 </span></blockquote>borders<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; where short stretches of land are in the &quot;wrong&quot; state for <br/>
 </span></blockquote>various<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; reasons, and many of these are extremyl short.  One example I <br/>
 </span></blockquote>found is<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; on the Delaware-New Jersey border, a bit south of where the <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Chesapeake<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; and Delaware Canal enters the Delaware River.  There, you&#39;ll <br/>
 </span></blockquote>find a<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; border fragment which is less than a quarter mile.  It wouldn&#39;t<br/>
&gt; surprise in the least to find shorter ones exist.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; ---<br/>
&gt; &quot;If you hate dissent, then get out of the United States.&quot;<br/>
&gt;                                           -Michael Wilbon<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>welcome rhodent nice handle<br/>
& thanx for the clear analysis & great example<br/>
well worth beaming up<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4371971&e=45364">http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4371971&e=45364</a><br/>
6&s=50&symshow=n<br/>
in the event craig only meant the smallest such example still <br/>
macroscopic enough to appear both on a map & on the ground<br/>
<br/>
with a boundary monument included<br/>
<br/>
&or necessarily having water always horizontally on both sides<br/>
<br/>
but never completely vanishing in it<br/>
<br/>
& also in case only salty waters need apply<br/>
or only those not attached to tripoints<br/>
etc<br/>
etc<br/>
<br/>
but your example is striking enough in its own right <br/>
& also happens to be a favorite place of mine<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the curiously sloppy try by the usgs mapmakers to cut this tail off <br/>
with a necessarily & legally clean arc line <br/>
is a glaring error<br/>
since the messy slash you see on this map is after all & in reality <br/>
1 of the 3 lost or stray arcs of the great supposedly singular <br/>
12mile radius depa boundary<br/>
& incidently one of 2 practically invisible geodetic sectors of denj<br/>
the other being attached to demdpa<br/>
<br/>
but with the similarly weird & hidden classmate on demd btw<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so my visit here 6 or 8 years ago to this nuclear waste dump<br/>
which was accomplished by sneaking right past & practically <br/>
thru the sizzling crackling steaming nuke plant that produced it<br/>
must be a highlite of my pointing career<br/>
<br/>
i recognized it for a nuke ok but just didnt realize it was a dump til <br/>
i saw the map much later<br/>
dohh<br/>
but i light up as well as homer simpson ever since</div>