Mike,
If I understand you correctly, I think that you have the lines reversed. The
stepped boundary is the oral de facto line, while the de jure line wanders
through the mountains to the northwest. As the newspaper article puts it: "The
mountain ridges that form the legal boundary are just northwest of the accepted
Yell-Logan county line that appears on current state maps as a jagged series of
steps." The stepped boundary shown on the topo maps is the accepted de facto
boundary.
I have an atlas called THE ROADS OF ARKANSAS from Shearer Publishing. It
depicts the entire state at a scale of one-half inch to the mile. It shows both
boundaries. The wandering boundary to the northwest is unlabeled, but the
stepped one to the southeast has notes in three paces that say "County line as
agreed upon for tax collection purposes." I have been through the area on
Arkansas 309, and the highway county-line signs are on the stepped agreed-upon
boundary.
I'll try to scan and post part of the map, if I can make the file small enough
and still retain legibility.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "m donner" <maxivan82@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:58 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] ozark county govt just yells up from the next holler
> talk about no government
> in the news today
> http://www.nwanews.com/adg/story_National.php?storyid=39884
>
>
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=15&n=3896587&e=454697&s=1000&layer=DRG250&size=l&u=0
> shows the general location of the mentioned de jure logan yell county line
> between its tripoints with pope & scott counties at upper right & lower left
> respectively
> see i showed & even mentioned them
> but the specific location of all the fun is at center including the place
> named crossroads
> where the letter f in ozark national forest is just west of the written de
> jure boundary between logan & yell counties as depicted
> but east of the orally agreed & long established de facto boundary along the
> ridge line mentioned in the article
>
> the area of overlapping or nongovernment can be seen up close here
> between the huckleberry mountain watershed divide running from lower left to
> upper right
> & the county line as depicted at some remove from it at lower right
>
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=15&n=3896587&e=454697&s=100&layer=DRG25&size=l&u=0
>
>
> but here is a question
>
> since an oral agreement is just as real & binding as a written one
> then isnt this supposedly de facto line really just as de jure as the
> written one
>
> & being more recent than the written one yet still in long use
> doesnt the oral line actually trump & supplant the written one in this
> unusual case
>
> & of course now that this so called anomaly has come to light
> they will probably amend the state constitution & the county charters
> posthaste
> to properly reflect reality
> but in the meantime arent we really looking here at a preciously rare if not
> unique case of an oral de jure boundary
>
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