whoops
i just realized the area really was ceded from wilson
to greene
rather than vice versa as i supposed & misstated below
so please subtract 1 yikes
but it doesnt alter the basic mystery of how wayne
could lose its corner
--- aletheia kallos <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
> the puzzle in a nutshell til now
> as you may recall it developed thru the message
> sequence below
> was
> by what route does the new greene wilson county line
> that follows the centerline of contentnea creek
> shown
> here
>
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=3941507&e=244083&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
> manage to reach the northeast corner of wayne county
> as also shown
>
> & the attached details from the plat that just
> arrived
> here on cream hill reveal the shocking fact that no
> extra stitch was necessary after all
> for the simple reason that the creek centerline has
> itself displaced as far as the wayne county line
> during the course of the past century
>
> & so the new grwawi tripoint stands not at the old
> corner as expected but rather at the unmarked or
> computed point cp shown clearly in the second
> attachment
> in fact some 400 feet south of the old corner
>
> & no real problem so far
> since the change was supposedly just between wilson
> &
> greene counties anyway
>
> but the plat also clearly shows wayne county as
> having
> lost its northeast corner entirely to wilson county
> owing to the change in the course of the creek
> & or to the change in greene wilson
> yikes
>
> & how can this be
>
> for whether the creek has moved by accretion or
> avulsion
> it was never a part of the wayne wilson county line
> which has consisted since 1902 only of geodetic
> lines
> at this corner
> & thus the change in the position of the creek
> should
> not have caused any displacement of that corner
> boundary
>
> at first i thought wayne county might simply have
> agreed to this change with wilson for the sake of
> convenience
> & that may indeed somehow yet prove to be the case
>
> but the plat indicates that resolutions for the
> boundary change were signed by the boards of
> commissioners only of wilson & greene counties
> but not of wayne county
>
> the plat also states
> even more strangely
> that the acreage was ceded from wilson to greene co
> rather than vice versa
> as we know was in fact the case
> & mentions no cession nor acreage at all from wayne
> to
> wilson
>
> so actually that makes at least 3 yikes in all
>
> admittedly none having to do with the tripoint
> location
>
> which i consider fully resolved to my satisfaction
>
> but once again i will be on the horn first thing
> monday morning
> this time from idle curiosity alone rather than
> tripointing necessity
> & to the wayne county government in goldsboro
> to find out if they even have any idea if & what
> they
> have lost
>
>
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18310
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18309
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18308
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18307
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18306
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18305
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18304
>
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