a smoking gun at gasw
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/semin
ole1915map.htm
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002
<orc@o...>" <orc@o...> wrote:
> the maps show it as a near miss at gasw
>
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=30.71&lon=-84.86&s=25
> &symshow=n
> & tho things surely got mussed up by seminole dam &
reservoir
> so you cant even imagine 3 big rivers here unless you zoom
out
> i still cant account for the drift of the junction point of the
> chattahoochee & flint rivers
> forming the apalachicola river just there
> from the position determined by ellicott in 1799
> surviving today as true gasw
> to the slightly more easterly or southerly position
> as suggested by the usgs depiction of the boundary
> subsequently delineated along the flint river between decatur &
> seminole counties of georgia
>
> how could these 2 descriptions of the same thing
> namely the mouth of the flint river
> not have arrived at or become rationalized to a single point
>
> perhaps the 2 versions differ by only the difference between the
> midchannel & thalweg positions
> but i dont recall ever seeing any such distinctions in this region
>
> so unless there is some statutory evidence to the contrary
> & even in the teeth of conflicting map evidence
> i think this is a real candidate for an interstate tertiary
quadripoint
> with gadsden & jackson counties of florida
> namely prospectively us2flga3degajase
>
> it will at least make a worthy companion to the equally
> unconfirmed termegapt prospect found at cone
> which jack has rightly questioned for looking like a near miss
too
> the also merely prospective us2cone3dekepese
>
> & apart from these 2 hopefuls
> the us2ncsc3codihoro point found yesterday near the south of
> the border resort is 1 of only 5 known classmates
>
> the others are the famous but trivial azconmut 4corners
> since it is a quadristate point
> so obviously a quadricounty too
> namely us2azconmut3apmosasa
> plus
> the also famous but not so trivial gancsc & dcmdvan
> which form us2gancsc3jamaocra & us2dcmdvan3arfamowa
> respectively
> the latter being not really a quadricounty but quadritertiary
anyway
> since both washington dc & independent cities factor into it
> plus
> the 6th principal meridian base point
> aka us2ksne3jerethwa
> & finally
> the uniquely not otherwise distinguished us2nesd3bechshsh
> at the nw corner of nebraskas grotesquely huge cherry county
>
> it is possible others will be found
> especially where major rivers cross state lines
> so the search continues
> but 7 is now looking like a probable maximum count
>
> so please add if you can