Subject: Re: STOP Sign in Northern New Jersey<br/>
Date: Mar 15, 2005 @ 02:16<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1309192324">handsome & fascinating find mike<br/>
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& tho further info on this municipality is elusive<br/>
its absence from a 1903 topo indicates it is relatively recent<br/>
& thus presumably had a fairly accurate border survey<br/>
<br/>
curiously enough tho<br/>
the octagon only gives the impression of having a perfectly <br/>
cardinal orientation<br/>
yet is actually off by several degrees<br/>
<br/>
&<br/>
measurements indicate the octagon isnt so nearly equilateral as <br/>
it looks either<br/>
what with the longest sides being about 200 feet longer than the <br/>
shortest<br/>
<br/>
all of which suggests someone may well have tried for but <br/>
somehow not quite achieved geometric perfection<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but if the powers that were really did want to make the easiest <br/>
possible work of an otherwise hard job<br/>
as you surmise<br/>
then such minor inexactitudes as these come as no great <br/>
surprise either<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
circular municipalities are actually fairly common tho<br/>
especially in the postbellum south<br/>
nor do they even necessarily require any demarcation<br/>
as an examination of plains georgia for example has revealed<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://egroups.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/1550">http://egroups.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/1550</a><br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=32.03389&lon=-84.39278">http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=32.03389&lon=-84.39278</a><br/>
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--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, spookymike@a... <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; For reasons unknown to me, the Borough of Sussex, in <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Sussex County, New <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Jersey, is octagonally shaped.  As with many other NJ <br/>
 </span></blockquote>boroughs, towns, etc., it is <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; completely surrounded by another municpality.  Perhaps the <br/>
 </span></blockquote>powers what be <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; wanted to make a circular borough, but found it easier to <br/>
 </span></blockquote>survey the eight <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; straight segments of the octagon, rather than risk duplicating <br/>
 </span></blockquote>the boundary mess in <br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; northern Delaware?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Have a look:  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/5r68d">http://tinyurl.com/5r68d</a><br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Mike Schwartz </span></blockquote></div>