welcome hilversum

maybe the links in message 7933 will clarify this for you

but if not
i know there are many others in that vicinity
possibly worth searching for

btw the usa does extend into its border lakes & rivers too
as you probably also realize
usually as far as about the middle of the water body

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "hilversum96"
<hilversum96@y...> wrote:

> Greetings, everyone - this is my first post to the group. I live on
> the CA-US border, near Lexington, Michigan. My back yard ends at

Lake

> Huron and, where the beach ends, so does the USA. I can see the

Blue

> Water Bridge between Port Huron MI and Sarnia ON from the beach. At
> my location, Canada is slightly east from due south of the USA.
>
> I found this group while looking for stories about the gas guy in
> Estcourt, Maine. I saw all the news stories on Canadian TV, and

none

> of them provided a clear layout of the village. From what the

stories

> told: the Canadian control point is right on the border, but the US
> control point is about a mile inside the border. There's a gas
> station bewteen it and the border, and no other roads leave the US
> side of the village. So you have to go through Canada to reach the
> rest of the USA.
>
> Is there a large scale, larger than topo, map of this bi-national
> village anywhere on the Net? And what about the village of

Estcourt

> Station, Maine? It's downstream from the border crossing, marked on
> some maps. The maps indicate no point of entry across the St.

Francis

> River here. So it would appear that, to get there, you have to go
> through Estcourt, and that would mean there is more than one road

out

> of town. It seems unlikely that so much of Maine, including two
> villages, would be accessible only from Canada.