Kevin Flynn wrote:
> Which other house? The photo caption pretty clearly refers to the one
> nearest the beach.
>
> Lowell, I am curious why you drew the line so that your presumed boundary
> shows up somewhat north of where the web site author says it is.
I'm not sure what the web site means to say. On first view, I took its
description to refer to the large house near the beach and the "crease in the
trees" running eastward beyond US 101. I think that almost any reasonable
person would.
However, all of my labors indicate that this house is clearly in California. It
took a lot of complex comparisons of topo maps, aerial photos, and the
California Coast web site photos to figure it out. I will try to give you the
best evidence below.
Attached hereto is an extreme close-up of the two buildings between which I
contend that the boundary runs. Both are east of US 101. This view looks
roughly west to east, with Oregon to the left and California to the right.
Next, please go to
http://tinyurl.com/2h2kj and scroll down to the aerial photo
with grid coordinates on it. US 101 bisects the photo north to south. We know
that BUS&SS fixes the terminal monument in latitude 41°59'55.7" twelve chains
from the Pacific ocean. Interpolating between the latitudes shown, and allowing
for a slight variation from photographic parallax, etc., that would place the
boundary along the first driveway from the bottom of the picture on the east
side of the highway. Notice how this driveway curves slightly away from the
fence line down near the highway. Notice also the house just north of this
driveway--how it's surrounded by hedges and has a very round, dark tree (split
by a blue grid line) in its back yard. Note that the building up the hill to
the south of the driveway has a dark roof, and there are light-roofed
outbuildings in the cleared area in front of it.
Now, go back to the attached photo, taken several years later. The house on the
left has its rows of hedges and its round, dark tree in the back yard. Up the
hill to the right is the building with the dark roof and what appear to be
mobile homes with light roofs in the clearing in front of it. I contend that
the boundary runs along the fence line on the north side of the driveway near
the center of the picture.
If you need even more confirmation, go to the topo maps and locate the
California inspection station just down US 101 to the south. You can then
locate this on the corresponding aerial photos and the California Coast web
site. (On Terraserver, you can toggle back and forth between topos and
corresponding aerials--except that the aerials go one step closer-in than do the
topos.) Once you have it on all three, work your way back northward, comparing
the roads and houses on the west side of the highway. You will see that the
boundary is well beyond the northern end of the subdivision.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA