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"Four Corners"...isn't
Topic Started: Apr 22 2009, 12:07 PM (208 Views)
George K
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30327372/

SALT LAKE CITY - Tourists who think they're putting a hand or foot in each of four U.S. states at the Four Corners area are apparently missing the mark — by about 2.5 miles.

National Geodetic Survey officials say the Four Corners marker showing the intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah is about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) west of where it should be, the Deseret News reported.

The only place in the United States where four state boundaries come together was first surveyed by the government in 1868 during the initial survey of Colorado's southern boundary. The survey was inaccurate.
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All this time? lol
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Cool! That means Arizona gets more land from New Mexico! :thumb:
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big al
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That's bizarre. I'd like to see a corroboration of that story. Surveying was a pretty exact technology even in 1868. I can't believe they missed by miles. Perhaps someone elected to build the monument at a more accessible location. Or maybe that news release was dated April 1.

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I checked GoogleMaps and it seems to be correct (the 4-corners monument) but I guess Google isn't aaaaaaalways perfect.

Or is it?
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Dewey
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What Al said. That's a pretty big error, even by 1868 standards.
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The New York/Pennsylvania border is messed-up, too. There are tracts of land that are in Pennsylvania, but registered in New York.
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Correction: Four Corners marker story
2 hours ago

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In an April 20 story about the location of the Four Corners marker, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the monument is 2.5 miles west of where it should be. Instead, according to Dave Doyle of the National Geodetic Survey, the monument marking the intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah is about 1,807 feet east of where it should have been placed in 1875. Doyle says the monument's location has been legally adopted by all the states as the official corner.

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