The statutory description of the boundaries of Perkins County (Nebraska Revised
Statutes 22-168) indicate that CONE CONE is not even a tripoint, much less a
quadripoint:
"The county of Perkins is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner
of township nine, north, of range forty-two, west, on the west boundary of
Nebraska; thence east to the southeast corner of township nine, north, of range
thirty-five, west; thence north to the northeast corner of section twenty-four,
township twelve, west; thence west on section lines to the northwest corner of
section nineteen, in township twelve, north, of range forty-one, west; thence
south along the west line of said section nineteen to its intersection with the
south boundary of Nebraska; thence east along said boundary line to the monument
at the northeast corner of Colorado; thence south along the west boundary of
Nebraska to the place of beginning."
Thus, Perkins County has a stubby panhandle extending across north of CONE CONE!
Furthermore, the statutory description of the boundaries of Deuel County
(Nebraska Revised Statutes 22-125) give us the east-west dimention of the stubby
Perkins panhandle:
The county of Deuel is bounded as follows: Commencing at the point where the
line between ranges forty-one and forty-two, west of the sixth principal
meridian intersects the south boundary of Nebraska, eighty-two links west of the
monument at the northeast corner of Colorado; thence west..."
So, the Deuel-Perkins-Sedgwick tripoint is 82 links (54.12 feet) west of CONE
CONE, and the Deuel-Keith-Perkins tripoint would be a somewhat longer distance
north of that. Jack suggests 500 feet, and I think that's probably close.
If the road alignments on USGS can be trusted, CONE CONE should be slightly east
of the road junction, that junction being Deuel-Perkins-Sedgwick. Note how USGS
has the road southward from the junction slanting slightly to the east for about
a hundred yards to find the north-south segment of CONE.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 12:23 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] kearney ne Re: sidney ia
>
>
> & not just to recite the cone on cone history promised below
> but to add a few more essential messages relating to the collection
> of quadricounty points
> which i have also just rediscovered
>
> the original cones photo is temporarily lost but the reaction to it
> in message 361 lives on
>
> more importantly tho
> 4866
> 4869
> 8651
> 8655
> 8679
> 9389 especially for jacks list
> 9408
> but of course remember to scotch dcmdvan from these
> since we now know it as a near miss
>
>
> & my errand at cone on cone today will be to either confirm or bust
> it as a quadripoint
> since i believe the monument does tell the real story there
> but cant quite recollect yet what it says
>
> beeps
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> wrote:
> >
> > very interesting
> > thanx
> > & no need to be afraid so long as you dont blow reality too far
> out
> > of proportion
> > & even then no problem really either
> > since even a revoked poetic license can easily be restored
> >
> >
> > indeed the following q&a just came on line from multidimensional
> > reality
> > for today only
> > so here it is again for posterity too
> > as follows
> >
> >
> > is it reality
> > or is it not reality
> >
> > a l l
> > things are reality
> >
> > even if only one is imagining it
> > it is a reality in that the thought has been offered
> > & someone who has the ability to translate that vibration will
> > perceive it
> >
> > it must be fair to say that anything that can be perceived must be
> > reality because as creators your reality depends upon what you are
> > willing to imagine & allow
> >
> >
> > end quote
> >
> >
> > so maybe i was being little hard on those of you i asked to get
> real
> > the other day
> >
> > it is just that for me
> > the only reality worth trying for here is the multidimensional one
> >
> > & tho multipointing was the original focus of bp
> > it is true that anything goes here now
> > & anything at all lovely is indeed well appreciated
> >
> >
> >
> > now
> > back to the nitty gritty reality
> > i was drawn to a particular quadricounty point probability here in
> > nebraska yesterday
> > namely butler polk seward york aka buposeyo
> > situated just northeast of gresham
> > because it looked like a near miss in my 17dollar delorme nebraska
> > atlas
> > & i was curious to see just how close of a near miss it was
> >
> > this atlas however has since then repeatedly demonstrated its
> > complete inadequacy
> > so luckily i stopped at a library & checked this megapoint out at
> > topozone too before barging ahead
> >
> > & lo & behold
> > usgs shows it not as a near miss at all but as a perfect road
> > centerline cross
> >
> > er
> > not to get too excited yet either tho
> > since the usgs has long since demonstrated its inadequacy too
> >
> >
> > but what was most interesting in the event was that each of the 4
> > corners of this simple road intersection proved to have been
> > signposted with its own pair of street names
> > & the 8 names thus produced for these 2 humble dirt roads were all
> > different
> >
> > yikes
> > quite a scene
> >
> > this 4 signpost situation
> > which is not unique
> > for i have previously encountered it at several other midwestern
> > megapoints
> > finally impressed me this time as being quite significant
> > & nearly sufficient proof for confirming a centerline intersection
> > quadripoint
> > as distinct from some pair of very near miss tripoints
> >
> > & it occurs to me that the only higher level of proof might be to
> > find official roadmaps of all 4 counties agreeing to this point
> >
> >
> > still a final difficulty may be encountered if you try to actually
> > touch or mark the megaconjunction with your big toe there in the
> dust
> >
> > for then you see that the 4 convergent roads wiggle about quite a
> > bit not only in terms of their bearings but also their widths
> > & to such a degree that the square inch you thought you nailed
> with
> > your toe
> > might better be expressed as a square foot
> > or even a square yard
> >
> > not that this is really a problem
> >
> > for i suppose the actual governing principle is that the
> convergent
> > counties all maintain a half share of each road
> > wherever & however it wiggles
> > so the location of the truest available quadripoint can probably
> be
> > more accurately determined than i actually did by eyeballing it
> >
> > say
> > by halving the empirical width of the road beds diagonally across
> > the intersection
> > or by employing some other still more definitive test if possible
> >
> >
> > & having resolved that nagging issue to my most complete
> > satisfaction ever
> > i am off next to one of my favorite points
> > namely cone on cone
> > or the northeast corner of colorado
> > on the colorado nebraska state line
> >
> > there is some interesting bp history on this point which i will
> try
> > to dig up on my next computer session
> > after posting this much now
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> > <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > > I'm afraid that Iowa's claim to have cornered the non-Chinese
> > market on loessial
> > > hills is quite a provincially myopic overstatement!
> > >
> > > Loess is a light brown to buff-colored eolian (wind-deposited)
> > soil. It covers
> > > the western two-thirds of Illinois; eastern, southern, and
> western
> > Iowa;
> > > southeastern Minnesota; northwestern Missouri; the southeastern
> > half of
> > > Nebraska; north-central, northwestern, and southwestern Kansas;
> > far eastern
> > > Colorado, the Oklahoma panhandle; and much of the Texas
> > panhandle. A notable
> > > band of loess 20 to 40 miles wide also extends southward from
> > Illinois through
> > > Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and slightly into Louisiana
> > along the east
> > > sides of the Mississippi River and Yazoo River valleys. There
> are
> > other
> > > loessial deposits in southeastern Washington and neighboring
> areas
> > of Idaho and
> > > Oregon.
> > >
> > > Most of these loessial areas are relatively flat, so loessial
> > hills are indeed
> > > rarer than loess. However, practically all of the bluffs along
> > the Mississippi
> > > River are loessial hills, including the famed bluffs of Memphis,
> > Vicksburg, and
> > > Natchez. The Palouse region in the State of Washington, etc. is
> > also an
> > > important area of loessial hills.
> > >
> > > The thing that makes loess form such impressive hills and bluffs
> > (where it's not
> > > flat) is a near vertical angle of repose. This means that a
> very
> > steep slope,
> > > bluff or cliff will be stable. In fact, an artificially cut
> slope
> > will
> > > naturally erode to vertical. This is why you will see that
> > highway and railway
> > > cuts in loess country are made vertical from the beginning.
> > >
> > > Lowell G. McManus
> > > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> > > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 1:07 PM
> > > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] sidney ia
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > have just been decompressing from all the recent loony eclipse
> > fun
> > > > etc in st louis
> > > > by dead reckoning toward the greater iamone area here on back
> > roads
> > > > which means mainly the lettered highways in missouri
> > > >
> > > > these offer a rare opportunity
> > > > equalled i think only by the byways of wisconsin
> > > > for trying to create words as you go
> > > >
> > > > it isnt as easy as it sounds
> > > >
> > > > rather like playing scrabble with an impossibly bad hand
> > > > plus
> > > > not being allowed to rearrange your tiles
> > > >
> > > > so far my longest word has been keno
> > > >
> > > > i know thats not too impressive yet
> > > > but at least it is the name of something else you can play if
> you
> > > > prefer
> > > >
> > > > i would like to try for a full sentence next
> > > >
> > > > but make that next time around
> > > > as i have just emerged into iowa
> > > > where this rare literary opportunity no longer exists
> > > >
> > > > what they do have around here is a loess hills scenic byway
> > > > for back roading between riverton & i think akron
> > > >
> > > > & this has caught my fancy too
> > > > so long as the incredibly hard south wind seems to be blowing
> me
> > > > that way anyway
> > > >
> > > > if i got the story right
> > > > this long strip of western iowa has the only loess hills of any
> > > > significance anywhere outside of central asia
> > > >
> > > > i think the loess must be the smooth milk chocolaty stuff
> under
> > all
> > > > this corn
> > > >
> > > > for more details & examples of the prevailing dreamscape
> > > > http://www.byways.org/browse/byways/2187
> > > >
> > > > the only question is
> > > > will i blunder into any of the 34 tertiary megapoints of iowa
> by
> > > > going this way
> > > >
> > > >
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