in case you dont want to wade thru the following message 10429
i am happy to confirm from visual examination of the fence lines that
the northwest corner of the texas panhandle does not in fact reach
the highway
nor even the paved shoulder of the highway
with about 8 feet to spare
& it is just a simple ordinary 2 lane highway with a very wide fenced
right of way
only half of which is mown
txnw does fall just on the fairway side of the rough line
& is in fact only about 30 feet from the road center line
so it is understandable that the monument might have been removed or
destroyed
but yikes it never occurred to me to dig for the underground marker
sheesh
also
in truth i must report i just discovered at topozone that my recent
txne try was a muff too
hahaha
what i found was an oktx monument about 1000 feet west of true txne
then
i neglected to mention
i slithered west from there along an oktx road for awhile
fishtailing & spraying mud into both states alternately
perhaps dozens of oscillations per mile
trying to balance my panhandles
so anyway happily we still have somewhere to go on both of the texas
north corners
& at the same time & perhaps no less interesting might be a search
for txn
the northernmost point of texas
which i also failed to find
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> the photo linked in message 10400 makes the corner of texas
> seem to cross the road entirely
> & it is hard for me to doubt the reality & relative accuracy of the
> fence lines
> not only as shown there
> but also as previously eyeballed by me on the ground
> so i have to wonder
> perhaps the 24k topo is overworked when magnified to 6k scale
> & is it possible that the far shoulder is the one indicated by the
> other data you mention
>
> also the photo makes it seem like there was a recent or ongoing
> road widening project there
> which could have substantially changed the relationships &
> alignments from how we ourselves recall them
>
>
> also
> rambling on & doubling up to save messages
> as i am getting sleepy
> i do agree with you about highway 340 near mdvawv
> & dont see how there could possibly be 2 virginia stretches there
>
> nor btw how there could possibly be anything but safety around
> here
>
> as you have observed
> he who is happy goes lucky
> which of course includes safe
>
> & thanx to our precision try pointing
> & the deliberate creation it engenders
> lucky us
> perfectly safe
> by just continuing to point at what we like
> & thus continuing to live happily ever after
>
> good night all
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "jparsell"
> <jparsell@n...> wrote:
> > On this NAD83, 1:6000 Topozone map it appears that the
> marker is off
> > the pavement, but within the road right of way. As I recall the
> Clark
> > Monument was near the edge of the road and was a collision
> hazard, so
> > it was removed and replaced at the same location by an under
> ground
> > marker referenced by two witness poles located well away
> from the highway.
> >
> >
> http://test.topozone.com/map.asp?z=13&n=4041232&e=675387
> &s=6&u=2&datum=nad83
> > &layer=DRG25
> >
> >
> > Jack
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: acroorca2002 [mailto:orc@o...]
> > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 2:47 PM
> > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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