good thinking
& maybe someone can find evidence of this
as we have for vawv3jelo & md3frwa
for tho i am a little busy myself now
i would be most interested in the outcome
as i am actually planning to sleep on this one
with my dcmdvan pillow case of course
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Michael Kaufman
<mikekaufman79@y...> wrote:
> What now about KYTNVA? Didn't we think the National
> Park Service screwed up (intentionally) in making the
> arrow heading west? Now maybe it is the USGS who
> screwed up in showing KYTN and KYVA as one striaght
> line for the strech throught the tripoint.
> http://topozone.com/map.asp?
z=17&n=4054022.99955522&e=260619.99985219&datum=nad83
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12355
> Also I am reattaching Mike's Photo of the TP. I
> enhanced the colors/brightness a bit so the arrow is
> even more evident.
>
> --- aletheiak <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> >
> > yes
> > thanx
> > & there are of course many slight divagations of the
> > various state &
> > county boundaries from the true blue ridge
> > not only here around frfrwa
> > the apparent starting place
> > but all down the line
> >
> > & the 1824 survey separating these 2 maryland
> > counties must have
> > been just as much of a rationalization of the actual
> > ridge line as
> > the 1997 vawv survey is at & below mdvawv
> >
> > but funny that the usgs still hasnt gotten wind of
> > this
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G.
> > McManus"
> > <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > > At http://tinyurl.com/5jpd4 there is an 18-page
> > PDF of a technical
> > study of
> > > water availability in the Monocacy River
> > watershed, which lies
> > east of the Blue
> > > Ridge divide in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The
> > second and third
> > sentences of
> > > the document state:
> > >
> > > "This drainage area includes significant portions
> > of Frederick
> > County, Maryland;
> > > Carroll County, Maryland; and Adams County,
> > Pennsylvania. It also
> > includes a
> > > small portion of Montgomery County, Maryland; a
> > very small portion
> > of Washington
> > > County, Maryland; and Franklin County,
> > Pennsylvania."
> > >
> > > That "very small portion of Washington County"
> > proves that the
> > > Frederick-Washington boundary must necessarily
> > stray east of the
> > actual drainage
> > > divide. A watershed map on page 3 of the PDF
> > shows such deviation
> > at the
> > > boundary's north end as it reaches its tripoint
> > with
> > Pennsylvania. This
> > > probably somehow accounts for the discrepancy that
> > you noted on
> > the USGS map.
> > >
> > > Washington County was created from Frederick
> > County in 1776, and
> > their common
> > > boundary was surveyed in 1824. Field notes of the
> > survey are
> > listed in the
> > > on-line catalog of the Maryland State Archives.
> > >
> > > Lowell G. McManus
> > > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> > > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 11:04 AM
> > > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] frederick md
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > fresh virgin multipoint today class a
> > > >
> >
> http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.72417&lon=-77.47167
> > > > where the mason dixon line crosses the blue
> > ridge
> > > > tho i only just realized they even do cross
> > > > yikes
> > > > at the interstate tricounty point of franklin
> > county pennsylvania
> > > > with frederick & washington counties of maryland
> > > > aka frfrwa or mdpa3frfrwa or technically
> > us2mdpa3frfrwa
> > > > marked by a shiny round topped stone post in
> > someones side yard
> > > >
> > > > & tho i cant tell whether the blue ridge itself
> > may continue in
> > the
> > > > scramble of mountains still farther north from
> > here
> > > > this point does mark the northern limit of the
> > use of the blue
> > ridge
> > > > as a state &or county boundary
> > > >
> > > > in fact frfrwa is exactly 1 tricounty point & 1
> > state line north
> > from
> > > > mdvawv on the blue ridge
> > > > & all very cleanly so
> > > > seeing as the frwa county line completely
> > transsects maryland
> > along
> > > > the blue ridge
> > > >
> > > > all of which you can see if you zoom out
> > > >
> > > > but if you zoom in
> > > > you will find this topo is quite odd
> > > > in showing the tripoint & the marker in 2
> > different locations
> > > >
> > > > on the ground
> > > > there is only an ordinary mdpa marker at the
> > tripoint position
> > shown
> > > > on the topo
> > > > but the true tripoint marker is the one shown
> > about 50 yards
> > farther
> > > > east on the opposite side of the road
> > > >
> > > > marker 92 still farther east is a mason dixon
> > milestone
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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