Please note on your TopoZone map a hand-written center line symbol
(superimposed cL) with an arrow pointing to MO 76 between your red
crosshairs and the actual tripoint. I take this to mean that the county
boundary is in the center line of the highway.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] readable 5 day ozark trip to an unreadable
mook3demcot marker
> just discovered this latest makeover & relatively
> fresh visit to ksmook
> http://www.bjbsoftware.com/corners/pointdetail.php3?point=46
> with unusual & rather handsome double scaled trifinial
> diagram
>
> the renovation was long expected
> & surmised too tho only after the fact
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18933
>
> it should now be possible to tell if the tower is
> indeed centered on ksok as we supposed earlier when
> trying to locate the true tripoint
>
> previous visits found various other stuff at what was
> then only the most probable or predicted tripoint
> location
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/9407
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/2535
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/1899
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/830
> http://www.bjbsoftware.com/corners/docs/ksmook.pdf
>
>
> & about your mo3bamcne find
>
>> Actually, the tripoint is about .1 mile west of your
> red crosshairs.
>> etc
>
> yes of course
> as i immediately realized after posting & checking the
> map
> but was glad to give you the chance to make your point
> better
> since the topozone cursors almost never land where
> intended anyway
>
> the real crosshairs question is
> will this tripoint marker actually be found in the
> middle of the road centerline as i suppose
> or not quite so well centered as demcot apparently was
> judging from the penultimate pic of the slide show
>
> --- "Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...> wrote:
>
>> Please see my insertions below.
>>
>> Lowell G. McManus
>> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
>> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 9:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] readable 5 day ozark
>> trip to an unreadable
>> mook3demcot marker
>>
>>
>> > wow
>> > nice find
>> >
>>
> http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=15&n=4067404&e=404736&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
>>
>> Actually, the tripoint is about .1 mile west of your
>> red crosshairs.
>> The Barry-Newton line comes down from the north,
>> bisects that forested
>> tract with "33" it, and intersects the
>> McDonald-Newton line coming in
>> from the west on the center line of MO 76. The
>> Barry-McDonald line then
>> follows MO 76 east to your red crosshairs before
>> turning south. Thus,
>> the western line of Barry has a slight jog,
>> apparently due to the
>> crossing of a standard parallel. (For those
>> unfamiliar with the US
>> Public Land Survey, that's a correction for the
>> convergence of
>> meridians).
>>
>> > & this one too appears to be a centerline arrow
>> > splitter
>> > thus conferring special distinction on both the
>> spirit
>> > of 76 & old mcdonald
>> >
>> > as well as yourself
>>
>> Thank you, thank you.
>>
>> > & wow again
>> > for i had no idea of these other multistate
>> exploits
>> > of yours
>> > tho aware of your arlatx visits of course
>>
>> I have done the following class A: ARLATX; KSMOOK;
>> ARMOOK; AZCONMUTand
>> NMOKTX.
>>
>> > but what did our fickle ksmook look like at the
>> time
>> > of your visit there
>> >
>> > & when was that
>>
>> I was there on June 14, 1992. The site was
>> substantially as described
>> by Jack Parsell from his published visit of June 21,
>> 1991. I was going
>> entirely without any detailed map or other
>> reference, but I realized
>> that the tall cairn on the west side of the road was
>> not the tripoint
>> and that it had to be in the center line opposite
>> the cairn.
>>
>>
>>
>> > --- "Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Interesting. Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> KSMOOK and ARMOOK were my second and third state
>> >> tripoints, long before
>> >> I even knew that other people were similarly
>> >> inclined to visit them, but
>> >> I've never been to this little jewel in between
>> at
>> >> Tiff City. I have
>> >> driven here and there on MO 76, though, and it's
>> a
>> >> beautiful highway.
>> >> There's another tripoint in MO 76, that being the
>> >> BAMCNE (Barry,
>> >> McDonald, Newton) county tripoint. I haven't
>> been
>> >> there either, but
>> >> I've been within a half-mile.
>> >>
>> >> Lowell G. McManus
>> >> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
>> >> To: <boundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>> >> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 5:43 PM
>> >> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] readable 5 day ozark
>> trip
>> >> to an unreadable
>> >> mook3demcot marker
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > actually it is a bonus lost tripoint just off
>> the
>> >> more
>> >> > familiar trypointing byway of route 43 that so
>> >> handily
>> >> > bridges the nearby tristate points we already
>> know
>> >> &
>> >> > love
>> >> > namely ksmook to the north & armook to the
>> south
>> >> > &
>> >> > maybe not really worth eating an entire highway
>> &
>> >> a
>> >> > whole week for
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
> http://springfield.news-leader.com/specialreports/spiritof76/index/
>> >> > but i am not aware of any other multipoint in
>> the
>> >> > world that is situated quite like this one
>> >> > at the precise destination & full stop of a
>> main
>> >> > thorofare
>> >> >
>> >> > so cut instead directly to the end of day 5 if
>> you
>> >> are
>> >> > both a thru tripper & a multipointing extremist
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
> http://springfield.news-leader.com/specialreports/spiritof76/day5/
>> >> > or just peek here for an idle glance at the map
>> &
>> >> > route arrangement
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
> http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=15&n=4059245&e=355412&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
>> >> > since i can tell you youll get little more real
>> >> > trypointing in this case than you yourself
>> provide
>> >> > tho the full road tour cum slide show starting
>> >> from
>> >> > the top link isnt at all shabby either
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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