Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] RE: circular cities in georgia??? (fwd)
Date: Nov 13, 2000 @ 18:47
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>many circular city limits in South carolina as well!
>Go to <http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl/>
>http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl/
>scroll down to the botton, and search for Estill, SC
>click on the "map" link in the result
>click "on" for "City Labels" and click redraw,
>zoom out by a factor of two to see some more...
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>David
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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:38:43 -0500
>From: Fred Broome <fbroome@...>
>To: David Mark <dmark@...>
>Subject: RE: circular cities in georgia???
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>Hi David,
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>Back in the days of my youth as a grad student at Univ. of Ga. we had it
>described to us. How much of this is true, I do not know. Seems that it
>was much easier to say the city limits of the town went x-miles from a
>specific corner of the main building in town, usually the county courthouse
>or city hall and usually from the cornerstone of that building. Remember,
>meets and bounds was the common method of surveying. This seemed to avoid
>conflict with property ownership. Believe me, the rationality was not based
>on von Thuenen or even Ricardo's land Rent theory, if anything, it was a
>convience. You should find quite a few of the small towns with that type of
>original boundary, not just in GA, but in SC as well. Call up TIGER mapper
>and look at Sylvania, GA (just up-river from Savannah) and then back out
>until you can see SC. Notice the pattern is there as well. You can see
>this on old U.S.G.S. maps as well.
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>It would be interesting to see how far this pattern goes North and West.
>Probably worth a cultural geography paper.
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>I'll see if I have anyother info in my old notes or papers and forward it.
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>Best regards,
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>Fred
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Mark [mailto:dmark@...]
>Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 6:03 PM
>To: Fred Broome
>Subject: circular cities in georgia???
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>Fred, great to see you in Savannah!
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>Someone pointed out two cities/villages in georgia that have circular city
>limits, and wondered if there were more. I decided to search on the
>TIGER map server and found lots of them, such as those listed below.
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>But, do you know the history of why this unusual yet highly rational (cf.
>Von Thuenen!) form of city limit is so common in georgia while rare in the
>rest of the world??
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>David
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>Leslie
>De Soto
>Plains
>Smithville (incomplete circle)
>Parrott
>Coleman
>Shellman
>Dawson
>Bronwood
>Sasser
>Leesbirg
>Warwick
>Arabi (has rectangle attached)
>Rebecca
>Jacksonville
>Denton
>Surrency
>Midway
>Darien (partial)
>Screven
>Braxton
>Ambrose
>Ty Ty
>Enigma
>Willacoochee
>...
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