Hello, I tried to send this directly to the site owner to see his response
before criticizing him "in public" but the email to
mapgarbageguy@... bounced...
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Mark <
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To:
mapgarbageguy@...
Cc:
jparsell@...
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Corner of New Mexico-Oklahoma-Texas.htm
Hello!
Someone just posted a note about your site to the BoundaryPoint egroup.
I think you are incorrect when you claim that at
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3162/HiPlains/NMOKTX/hiplains_cor_NMOKTX.htm
that "The USGS benchmark in the foreground is not located at the actual
point; rather, it tells the direction and the distance of the point".
My close-up of the top of the marker,
http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~dmark/tristate/NMOKTX03.jpg
seems unambiguously to indicate that it IS at the exact tri-state point.
The metal sign just behind the steel-clad concrete post is the witness
post, the steel-clad concrete post itself appears to be at the exact
tri-state point.
http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~dmark/tristate/10NMOKTX.html
David
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Jack Parsell wrote:
> Corner of New Mexico-Oklahoma-TexasHere is another documentation of this corner by Dale Sanderson.
> Note that he says the marker tells the direction and distance to
> the tri-point.
> Jack
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> Many people haven't noticed that the northwest corner of Texas' panhandle is not the same point as the southwest corner of Oklahoma's panhandle. It's because New Mexico "wraps" around the Texas panhandle for a mile or two before it reaches Oklahoma. In this photo, I am standing in Texas. (The USGS benchmark in the foreground is not located at the actual point; rather, it tells the direction and the distance of the point.) The fence behind me is Texas' north state line. The northwest corner of Texas' panhandle is a mile or two to the west (left). The dirt road defines the eastern state line of New Mexico: the state has a miniscule "panhandle", if you will. Oklahoma's panhandle is to the right (east) of the road, and north (behind) the fence.
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