I visited TXnw some years ago, and I'm in perfect agreement with your assessment
of its location in relation to the highway.
I was puzzled to find nothing even slightly monumental there, but I envied the
residents of the farmhouse in the northwestern corner of Texas. I have since
read (where, I do not remember) that the historic monument was removed as a
hazard to traffic, and that it was replaced by a buried marker of some sort.
Rather than dig for it, I would suggest using a stiff wire (coat-hanger,
perhaps) to probe for it, then dig where you find it.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "acroorca2002" <orc@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: NW corner TX panhandle
> 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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