Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
Date: Jun 08, 2003 @ 20:04
Author: Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@image.dk>)
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There is a similar international example on EERU. See attachment.
 
It will be visit during GBBE. But I love also the other part of the border.
 
Jesper
----- Original Message -----
From: acroorca2002
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 8:46 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Brendan
<pit.hokie@a...> wrote:
> Yes, I drive through Hancock quite regularly.  Hancock is a fun
destination
> for "roadgeeks" as well (of whom I am one) because it's the
location of one
> of the shortest, non-terminating US or Interstate road
segments in the
> United States through any one state.

for the very shortest such
consider
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=13&n=4041216&e=67516
8&s=25
at the northwest corner of the texas panhandle
where both rumor & fence lines indicate texas gets barely nipped
by the eastbound lane
& not at all by the westbound lane
of us56&64

depending on which side of the vehicle one is sitting in
the travel distance might be measured in inches rather than feet

> Coming north on U.S. 522 through Virginia, you enter West
Virginia for only
> about 20 minutes, passing through the small town of Berkeley
Springs.  The
> road then crosses the Potomac River into Hancock, Maryland,
passes over the
> town, then joins with I-70 for short distance where it almost
immediately
> crosses into Pennsylvania.  It's about 1.0-1.1 miles between
the WV/MD line
> and the MD/PA line on U.S. 522.
>
> Brendan
> Monroeville, PA USA
>
> At 12:09 PM 6/8/2003, you wrote:
> >Has anybody ever been to Hancock?
> >
> >This narrow part of Maryland.
> >
>
><http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4399157&e=743
265>http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4399157&e=7
43265
> >
> >Jesper



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