just spoke with kevin vaughn
the surveyor of vawv down to mdvawv in 1997
& writer of the account of it in the link below
& he told me the terminal marker is right up there by the road
which i do recall having noticed & wondered about circa 2000
hahaha
but that there is in fact no demarcation whatsoever below it
& none at the mdvawv tripoint in particular
so no need to climb boulders or visit the county land offices etc
however
we can very much look forward to the next drought
because he will be sending me the geocoordinates of the exact
tristate point as determined & published by his survey even if not
actually marked by it
& i doubt there will ever be a more accurate or more authoritative
determination
so give him a couple of days
& give mother nature perhaps a couple of years
tho i am pleased to report mdvawv will imminently be visitable in
a kayak class b
& you can expect white water with an enormous hole in it right
about there at the tripoint position just now
but anyway stay tuned for the coords
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
<orc@o...> wrote:
> a 1997 survey marked 30 points along northernmost vawv
> specifically between loudon county va & jefferson county wv
> with copper plates set in cement monuments embedded in
rock
> the positions of all which are recorded in the county land
offices
> & have evidently been accepted by at least one of the 2 states
>
> & since mdvawv is the terminal point of this survey
> it seems a good bet that it will be found so monumented
> where the ridge line meets the low water line of the potomac
> without any need for checking at the land offices
> provided the river is at a low enough stage to expose it
>
> alternatively or additionally
> there could be a marker at the nearest convenient point above
> the high water line
> with or without an indication of where the true terminal point
aka
> mdvawv tristate point was determined to fall
>
> in any case it appears there is certainly somewhere to grow
here
> should anyone get there before i can when the river is
favorable
> which btw it definitely isnt at the moment
>
> an interesting account of the survey
> http://www.profsurv.com/ps_scripts/article.idc?id=224
> & the legal description
> http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+7.1-10.1
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
> <orc@o...> wrote:
> > tom
> > when did you visit the mdvawv area
> > & did you find any tristate marker there
> >
> > i ask because many of us have sought this presumably
> > unmonumented & usually submerged tripoint over long
years
> >
> > but there is now reason to believe it has recently been
> > demarcated for the first time
> >
> > so it is a high premium point at the moment
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Sanders
> > <hilversum96@y...> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been on that short stretch of US 340 in Virginia. There's
a
> > gas station between the Potomac River bridge, where the
road
> > crosses from MD to VA, and the WV border. I remember
> stopping
> > there to fill up. Until I returned a couple years later, I used that
> > quick visit to add VA to my list of states visited. In this respect,
I
> > added an extra visit to TN after stopping at the VA-KY-TN
> tripoint
> > near Cumberland Gap.
> > >
> > > Also stopped in Hancock, although I remember that part of
> > MD/PA more for great car radio reception. New York City and
> > Detroit can both be heard, thought faintly, in the daytime. And,
> > with patience, both DC and Pittsburgh FM come in. What a
> spot,
> > for road, radio, AND border buffs, :)
> > >
> > >
> > >
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