--- "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...> wrote:

>
> The boundaries on these maps don't seem to be very
> accurate

good point not just here but practically always

& we can always hope for better maps too

& one more insert below

- so I

> wouldn't put any stock in someone saying their
> showing a jetty built
> out from the NJ shore means its in DE just because
> the border line
> crosses the jetty and leave the west end outside of
> NJ. A printer can
> change on plate to show a new jetty in brown, and
> not change the old
> black plate on which the border was originally
> drawn.
>
> See
>
>

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=11&Z=18&X=807&Y=10737&W=3&qs=%7cWashington%7cDC%7c

>
> It's an image of ones Point, at the southern tip of
> DC. The border
> marker that is actually on the shore is not the
> start of the
> northbound DC VA border - which the map by the same
> organization shows
> as being at least 20 feet into the Potomac. The
> cession of this part
> of DC in the 1850s to VA stipulated that the Potomac
> shore was the
> border, not that it lies some line 20 feet out into
> the water.

but this offshore bit of dcva here isnt about that

& notice it is more like 150 feet than 20 feet out

rather this bit is 20th century
i am pretty sure

per bus&ss
& 59 stat 552
from the intersection of the high water line & the
center line of second street in alexandria extended
the dcva boundary follows the established pierhead
line to the corner common to dc&md&va

but anyway thats what thats about
whenever it actually went down
& it looks exactly right to me on your map too

i have been there & eyeballed the pierheads
& am completely satisfied with the usgs rendition of
this all the way to & including dcmdvas

so youll have to cast your aspersions more in general
rather than in this particular case

but they are aspersions well taken

In the

> last two years, condos have been built on stilts
> over the water in
> Alexandria - and I've been wondering why these
> owners pay taxes to
> Virginia. There are some little bays where waters
> of the
> Potomacappear to be Virginia shoreline, but I've not
> bee able to find
> authoritative maps showing the official border at
> these places. It's
> also open as to how far up a river or stream that
> empties into the
> Potomac DC territory extends (i.e., where the
> "shoreline" actually is
> when it's under water between the Potomac and the
> point, wherever it
> is, that some stream actually "ends" once it's
> waters actually reach
> the Potomac).
> The same applies to this section of the DE-NJ
> shoreline borders.
>
>
> LN
>
>
>
> LN
>
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G.
> McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > According to Microsoft Streets & Trips, the street
> running onto the
> first of these from the south-southeast is named
> "Ferry Road." This
> suggests that the squarish fill was formerly a ferry
> landing. It is
> almost directly across the estuary from New Castle.
> >
> > Also, there is a mile-long jetty extending into
> Delaware slightly
> upriver from this point. See
> >
>

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=18&X=568&Y=5487&W=3

> .
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: aletheia kallos
> > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 10:20 AM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] yikes more bits of left
> bank delaware found
> >
> >
> > closer examination of the jersey shore within
> the 12mile circle
> has turned up at least half a dozen additional
> tongues of
> transdelawarean delaware
> > all apparently involving backfill &or pier
> projections
> >
> > for example
> >
>

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.65917&lon=-75.52333

> >
>

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=18&X=2274&Y=21948&W=1

> > &
> >
>

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.734&lon=-75.4766

> >
>

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=18&X=1147&Y=10995&W=1

> >
> > but maybe this isnt really so surprising
> >
> > with benefit of hindsight anyway
>
>
>
>

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