I know of some weird cases of borders and rivers, particularly along the Mississippi, where it has changed course. There's a case near Wilson, Arkansas where the river has changed course, and a few square miles of land on the west side of the river belongs to Tennessee. However, for obvious practical reasons, the post office that services that area is based in Arkansas - so the same zip code crosses state lines.
-Alan ________________________________ From: Adam Schreiber <sa...@clemson.edu> To: Minh Nguyen <m...@1ec5.org> Cc: OpenStreetMap U.S. <Talk-us@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:38:19 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-us] County Line Corrections On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Minh Nguyen <m...@1ec5.org> wrote: > Kentucky's border along the Ohio River is one example: the border is > defined to be the low water mark of the Ohio-Indiana-Illinois bank as of > the 18th century [1], so it's not the centerline and not quite the > northern riverbank. Along Ohio's section of the river, all the islands > belong to Kentucky or West Virginia. > > [1] http://supreme.justia.com/us/444/335/case.html So to be accurate, one has to go to county/state/judicial records individually if the higher res boundary data isn't made available somewhere online already? Adam > On 1/28/09 12:53 PM, Adam Killian wrote: >> I think there may be cases where one shore or the other is the boundary, >> not the centerline. Presumably, islands in a river are in one county or >> the other? >> > -- > Minh Nguyen<m...@zoomtown.com> > AIM: trycom2000; Jabber: m...@1ec5.org; Blog: http://notes.1ec5.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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