old brendan
thats kaskaskia
a nit possibly not worth picking
but an enhancement i mean
also new anton
i believe david offered this info once before
& it is probably from van zandt aka bus&ss
boundaries of the united states & the several states
the great american boundary bible by usgs
tho i dont have it in front of me now
but the reason kentucky bend got created is that the original boundary
description &or task of the surveyors
possibly of the original vanc line that is today the kytn line
were to produce the line westward as far as the mississippi
& nobody anticipated it would strike the river twice or rather thrice at
that latitude
when they realized it
they just kept doing their job as well as they could tho
it is sparsely inhabited & belongs to its county like any other outlying
part of that rural county
i believe
m
>From: "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Kentucky Exclave
>Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:20:04 +1100
>
>I know of no scholarly articles on it, but there was a small article on
>Kaskasia Is, part of Illinois on the Missouri side of the river (or the
>other way around?).
>
>Oriental Geographer, 1962, v6 #2, pp197-202. Dalian Price "Kaskasia Is, a
>problem in isolation"
>
>ON a separate issue, Stephan B. Jones "the 49th parallel in the great
>plains: the historical geography of a boundary", Journal of Geography,
>December 1932, v31 #9, pp357-68.
>
>BW
>
>
>
>
> >From: anton_zeilinger@...
> >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> >To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Kentucky Exclave
> >Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:30:38 -0000
> >
> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >As this is my first posting I would like to express my thanks to the
> >people who had the idea to set up this Group. I didn't believe there
> >were so many people sharing my passion for geographical curiosities.
> >
> >I don't know if you've discussed this before but I was wondering if
> >someone has information on the Kentucky exclave at that state's
> >westernmost end. It borders on Tennessee in the south, and on
> >Missouri on the W, N and E, across the river Mississippi. I found it
> >on a RandMcNally roadmap but there doesn't seem to be much of
> >importance there. So I was wondering how it came into existence, if
> >it is inhabitated, how it is administered and so on...
> >
> >Thanks a lot,
> >
> >Anton
> >
> >PS: Here's a (long) link to see it on MapQuest:
> >
> >http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?
> >Pyt=Tmap&addr=&city=&state=KY&slt=37.554200&sln=-
> >85.269600&mlt=36.550900&mln=-
> >89.524900&name=&zip=&country=us&BFKey=&BFCat=&BFClient=&mag=7&desc=&cs
> >=3&newmag=6&poititle=&poi=
> >
>
>
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