my ongoing try for a first arizona tricounty point visit class
a
has settled on & continues to focus on maricopa county
because of her relatively high population density &
development level & the relative accessibility of her
corners
but after a virtual perambulation & closer look at all her
tripoints on topozone i have to report that any apparent or presumptive
advantages she may have had have actually not born any
monumental fruit at all yet & dont look like
they necessarily will
of lamaya you already know the most likely particulars
& traveling from there clockwise or eastbound along maya to
the gila tripoint at gimaya
thru the continuous or discontinuous sequence of 30
numbered corner markers
of which quite a few are missing from the topo as number 2 was but
may still be recovered too
i find gimaya is depicted as the unmarked trijunction of a
ridge line convergent on giya & the continuous maya & gima
geodetic convergents that fall between maya marker 30 & gima
marker 31
evidently of the same continuous original series begun at
lamaya
of course gimaya might be marked by a corner marker number
30a that isnt shown on the topo
but if so that remains to be demonstrated
next continuing along gima comes pinal
so thats gimapi
or maybe i should say eccentrically gimapin to distinguish her
from pima who is coming next
yikes
but again
this one too is depicted as unmarked
pima comes next continuing along mapi
so thats mapipi
yikes
or mapimpin
yikes again
& tho i dont know which name is worse
fortunately she is not far from kaka
which gives a little cover
& this one too is shown as unmarked
tho her location does offer hope of a public land survey corner
pin
in fact the only maricopa tricounty hope i have found for class a
continuing west along mapim to yuma county
mapiyu or mapimyu is reached
& the atwood 113d20m long line is regained
but no marker is shown
worse yet
the freakin corner isnt flush but appears to jog significantly
oops
but i will get back to that after i close the perambulation
by simply continuing north now along mayu to lamayu
where again no marker is shown
& finally looping the loop by following lama from
there to lamaya
now
the 113d20m atwood line from which i began & along which i
have also closed the perambulation
& which is supposed to have been run continuously in 1918 from the
santa maria river to the mexican border does not in fact appear have been
marked that way
if the sequence of 51 markers running north from near mapimyu thru lamayu
to near lamaya are its production
a detail which i cant yet verify
since these could of course be a later series too
but there are no markers at all shown by usgs anywhere along pimyu
the southernmost leg of the 113d20m atwood line
not at the mapimyu point & jog
& not even at the mexican border
& how the heck did that jog creep in there anyway
if all this is supposed to be so rigorously atwoodian
did he himself introduce it
indeed is there any evidence that he himself set anything more than an
initial rock at 34 lat
& that anything else we find on his line is his actual
doing
i havent found any yet
so anyway
i dont know where to continue on to from here
but if anyone notices a hotter tricounty marker prospect anywhere in
arizona than has been identified at mapimpin aka kaka
my last maricopa chance if any
would they please let me know
or bag it themselves
thanx & beeps