the missouri & mississippi rivers have many of these
& of course all rivers tend to do this sort of thing to some extent
but it is just that these particular rivers are state line rivers in
such a big way
there may be a few left on the artx red river sector too
the many on the oktx red river sector were just eliminated by a new
compact
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Michael Kaufman
<mikekaufman79@y...> wrote:
> nice
>
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=15&n=4574535&e=255355&s=100&size=m&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
> --- dcupopelilly <ronkessler@s...> wrote:
> >
> > In addition to Kansas City and Wash DC, Bristol
> > TN/VA is another
> > urbanized state border, I believe I've read some
> > interesting posts
> > on here about the bizarre history of that boundary.
> > Chicago (at the
> > Indiana border) is another.
> >
> > One of the more bizarre state boundaries I've
> > encountered is in
> > Omaha, NE at Carter Lake, IA. Driving south from
> > Eppley Airfield, I
> > was stunned to see a Welcome to Iowa sign (without
> > crossing the
> > Missouri River) and thought I was hallucinating. My
> > guess is that
> > Carter Lake itself was once part of a large oxbow on
> > the Missouri
> > River but has since been filled (but that Iowa
> > retained it's
> > original property). Driving south on Abbott Dr and
> > looking west
> > across Carter Lake, if you had told me that the
> > other side was Iowa
> > you could have won a lot of $$$ off of me.
> >
> > I'm not sure divided buildings are that uncommon.
> > Visiting
> > Delaware's 'highpoint' (448 feet, woohoo...) about
> > 100 yards from
> > the DE-PA border, there is a nearby stone house
> > divided by the state
> > line (monument just outside of it). I'm pretty sure
> > there are even
> > buildings on the US-Canada border on the 49th that
> > are divided (I
> > remember reading about a bar in particular).
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Arif Samad
> > <fHoiberg@y...>
> > wrote:
> > > I have been busy lately, so I didn't get to
> > respond to
> > > somebody who showed a map of a boundary going
> > through
> > > an urban area. I have some comments and anecdotes
> > on
> > > the subject that I want to mention.
> > > It is quite common for state-level boundaries to
> > go
> > > through urban areas. It happens quite a lot in
> > Europe
> > > where it goes through buildings. I found
> > buildings
> > > divided by boundaries in Kopenhagen in both
> > outside
> > > and inside boundaries. There are divided
> > buildings in
> > > Vienna. I haven't found any divided buildings in
> > > non-city first order-divisions, but that is
> > because it
> > > would be too time-consuming to search them all.
> > > Though I did pick up a possible first-level
> > enclave in
> > > the Hamburg area. On the NE part of Hamburg near
> > the
> > > town of Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein, there
> > seems
> > > to be an Enclave of Hamburg right next to a
> > > pene-enclave of Scleswig-Holstein. As
> > > Schleswig-Holstein does not have detailed German
> > > mapping site as far as I know, I would like some
> > > confirmation.
> > > Even in USA, buildings can be divided by
> > boundaries in
> > > Urban areas. About two years ago, I was driving
> > to
> > > Smoky Mountains with a friend (who is patient
> > enough
> > > to deal with my two obsessions of sports and
> > > boundaries) and we happen to drive past Bristol,
> > > Virginia and Tensessee. Bristol is a city that is
> > > divided by the Main Street. Bristol doesn't have
> > a
> > > GIS site, but there are divided buildings in
> > > Washington County on the outskirts of that city on
> > > their GIS site. One of my favorite border areas
> > that
> > > my friend, who lives in DC, happens to have
> > mentioned
> > > to me are the two circles in DC. Both
> > Massachusetts
> > > Avenue and Connecticut Avenue enters DC in a
> > circle.
> > > I drive through Connecticut Avenue to go to my
> > > friend's apartment and when I enter the circle, I
> > am
> > > in Maryland and when I leave, I am in DC. Much of
> > DC
> > > has boundaries on streets. But according to their
> > GIS
> > > site, the boundaries are slightly off and there
> > are
> > > quite a few driveways and one parking lot that are
> > > divided by the boundaries. Unfortunately, I
> > haven't
> > > found any buildings that are divided. Guys, you
> > > should check out my links site. There are a lot
> > of
> > > sites I have collected.
> > > My friend also mentioned this picture
> > >
> >
> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Oct2003/Calif
> > ornia.TMOA2003299_lrg.jpg
> > > of the California fire. The boundary is shown on
> > that
> > > picture. You think Mexico is happy with the smoke
> > > from the American fire?
> > > Arif
> > >
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