Oddities of geography (design, land, rated)

[ncstateofmind]

Originally Posted by averysgore

The extreme northeast corner of Vermont, part of the town of Canaan. That's NH to the north, not Quebec.

That's also a good example. I would have never noticed that.

The Greater Cumberland Regional Airport, across the river in West Virginia from Cumberland, MD, is another example of this phenomenon.

[1greatcity]

Originally Posted by ncstateofmind

Molena is a perfect circle but a quick check of Shelby reveals that it isn't a circle. Maybe it was developed earlier and the town annexed other parts of the nearby area. Still a super cool fact.

This is true. Many of the round cities and towns were developed in a circular shape, but later annexed parcels of land outside the circle, leaving them with an imperfect shape.

[Tusco]

The US 49th parallel is farther north than a huge portion of Newfoundland along with all of the Maritimes.

[Cloudy Dayz]

Originally Posted by ncstateofmind

Molena is a perfect circle but a quick check of Shelby reveals that it isn't a circle. Maybe it was developed earlier and the town annexed other parts of the nearby area. Still a super cool fact.

I agree that Shelby is a bad example, but there are hundreds of towns in Georgia, and the surrounding states that have almost perfect circular city limits. But if you look at them close up, I don't think any of them are true circles. They appear to be some polygon shapes, designed to come as close to a circle as possible. I guess when the towns were laid out, they probably used wagons with odometers to measure the distance they wanted on the North-South-East-West routes from the town center. Then they probably had a surveyor go cross country to connect those points together into something as close to a circle as possible.

It sure seems like they way over complicated a simple matter of laying out a town. To make it worse, even though they are not perfect circles, the city limits still cut through properties and houses. So one part of a house might be inside the city limits and another part outside. What a nightmare. That just doesn't happen with city limits that follow roads or at least property lines.

[1greatcity]

There’s a website that illustrates the original circle cities and towns of Georgia (most of them are no longer perfectly round.) SARAH MAKES MAPS It’s quite interesting.

[Cloudy Dayz]

Originally Posted by 1greatcity

There’s a website that illustrates the original circle cities and towns of Georgia (most of them are no longer perfectly round.) SARAH MAKES MAPS It’s quite interesting.

Here is another article.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/65...circular-towns

[arr430]

Originally Posted by darstar

This is not so. as I said the eastern time zone goes all the way to the Wisconsin border. the time divide comes from the north a rod Lake Superior.

The Michigan counties adjacent to Wisconsin are in Central Time.

[darstar]

Originally Posted by arr430

The Michigan counties adjacent to Wisconsin are in Central Time.

I know that.......then where does the time zone line go.....just off shore. ? I can’ t find out anything so far. . I know the change was in 1967.

[1greatcity]

The Uinta Mountains, in northeastern Utah/ southern Wyoming, are the highest range in the lower 48 states running east to west.

[pnwguy2]

Originally Posted by 1greatcity

The Uinta Mountains, in northeastern Utah/ southern Wyoming, are the highest range in the lower 48 states running east to west.

Yes, and very noticable driving on I-80 in Wyoming from Green River to Evanston.