Right off the top of my head, I'd venture to say that the longest one is bound
to be in Alaska--if you consider Alaskan boroughs as county equivalents.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "acroorca2002" <orc@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:09 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Shortest County Border
> nice ones mike
>
> so we are looking for an unknown longest county line
>
> & something shorter than 400 feet but longer than zero
>
> yoicks & yeehaw
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, spookymike@a... wrote:
> > Not too long ago there was an extended discussion about the shortest
> > international border. While doing some mapping in connection with
> my county
> > highpointing hobby, I ran across two short U.S. county common
> borders. I offer these
> > to the group without any assurance that they are the shortest, in
> fact
> > considering the 3,000+ U.S. counties, there are most likely shorter
> common borders.
> > The obvious counterpart is the longest common county border.
> >
> > Macon and Monroe Counties in Missouri, estimated at about 400 feet
> in length:
> >
> http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=15&n=4383981.59766708%20&e=560111.101455
> 454&u=1&
> > datum=nad27
> >
> > Summers, West Virginia, and Giles, Virginia, estimated at about 520
> feet:
> >
> http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4142239&e=512472&s=50&size=m&u=1&la
> yer=DRG2
> > 5
> >
> > Mike Schwartz
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