oops
url is hopefully corrected in text below
& it is worth looking at such a nice proruption
but i realize now ky does project to the middle of the mississippi
river regardless of its relation to the ohio river
so please forget this whole thought about ilkymo possibly being
dry
for that is a pure pipe dream
oops
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m donner"
<maxivan82@h...> wrote:
> next there followed in rapid succession very casual revisits to
ilkymo
> kyohwv & njnypa
> each as viewed thru fluffy surface fog from nearby bridges on 3
successive
> moonlit nights
>
> ilkymo is particularly interesting
>
>
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=4097471&e=306348&s=
200
> shows the tripoint in the middle of the mississippi
> i believe erroneously
>
> it is well known that kentucky owns the entire ohio river bed
from kyohwv to
> ilkymo
>
> & downstream dams cause not only ohpawv & kyohwv but
inkyoh & ilinky as well
> to fall today no longer on the right bank of the ohio as originally
> specified by royal charter but rather within the river itself at
some small
> distance off their original positions on the right bank
>
> that is understandable & commonplace
>
> however no downstream dam exists to explain the similar
slight departure of
> the ilky border from the right bank of the ohio as is indicated in
the above
> map
>
> yes please do check that out again
> for i cant explain it
>
> & that is one conundrum that needs a solution if anyone can
come up with it
>
>
> but beyond that
> there is also a question of how the usgs justifies projecting ilky
along the
> right bank of the ohio
> beyond the actual mouth of the ohio
>
> i can understand following thalweg boundaries to their natural
conjunction
> in the midst of a river confluence
> no problem there
>
> but how do you justify following a riverbank boundary beyond
the end of the
> bank
>
> so that is a second stumper i need help solving
>
> & pending further light on either or both of these 2 mysteries
> i think ilkymo may actually & legally fall just at the tip of land in
the
> crotch between the ohio & mississippi rivers
> rather than as shown on the map
>
> indeed this is the point from which i had previously gazed out
at &
> photographed the usgs ilkymo position
> while beating my feet in the mixed mississippi & ohio mud
right there on
> more than one occasion
> but without yet supposing that the map was wrong & i myself
right
> as i do now believe
>
>
> kyohwv was less impressive to revisit from aloft because it lies
a bit
> farther from its companion bridge
> near a place still called kenova from the days when virginia
reached
> kentucky & ohio near here
> & never properly renamed kenowva after wva separated from
va
>
> but anyway
> kyohwv does fall a bit off the right bank due to a known
downstream dam
> & was visited as accurately as possible there by canoe a few
years ago
>
>
> & njnypa was of course best known & least impressive to
revisit from on high
> of all 3
> yet as the third in succession under such strange & beautiful &
> unpremeditated conditions
> it was a multi charm
>
>
>
>
>
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