Greetings BoundaryPoint folks,

I'm new to the group, and have been having great fun browsing the
past messages and the items in the file repository. I particularly
enjoyed the document which described the visits to all of the U.S.
tripoints.

By way of introduction, I have always been interested in maps and
boundaries and travel in general. During the 1990's, I set a goal of
flying my kite in every one of the 50 states before the end of the
millennium. I did a lot of travelling in the final two years, but
managed to pull it off. In the process, I visited several of the
tripoints myself and often tried to fly the kite at those locations.
The kite has also flown in Red Square, the Great Wall of China, and
various other world landmarks in all continents except Antarctica.

I'd like to throw out a few questions to you folks dealing with my
current interest, which is rivers on the boundaries of U.S. states.
By my rough count, there are 39 U.S. rivers that form part of one or
more state boundaries. I'm now in the process of doing a more
careful survey and count. I would love to hear from anybody who
could point me to sources which can supply detailed boundary
descriptions for each state. So far, I find that the State
constitutions are a good source, but they usually don't include years
of court decisions resolving various disputes. Is there a good
source for the current accepted boundary info?

One of the specific interests I have is identifying rivers where the
boundary line does not travel down the middle of the river, but where
in fact one state claims the whole river. I believe the Potomac is
one example, and I read somewhere that the Colorado between
California and Arizona is another instance, but I haven't verified
this. Does anybody know of any other rivers that meet this
condition? Are there any cases where both banks (as opposed to just
the entire river) lie in the same state?

Well, I guess that's enough questions for now...!

Clive Dawson
Austin, Texas