More Pointless Than You'd Thought At The Time

[linnaeus]

So apparently the National Geodetic Survey has determined that Four Corners, North America's favorite secondary quadripoint, is actually about two and a half miles west of the real Arizona-Utah-Colorado-New Mexico border. As friends will attest, I'm a little too fascinated by maps and all things cartographical, so this got my attention. Almost

Comments

[cortezopossum]

The wiki article mentions that the articles that say the 4-corners point is different are incorrect in that they neglected a few things and that the 4-corners monument is indeed the legal border between the 4 states.

[linnaeus]

Huh, so it does. I should really read the articles I link to, shouldn't I? For that matter, here's a story from KSL TV in Salt Lake City that goes into more detail than the Associated Press article, and which reaches the same conclusions as the wiki article.

[altivo]

I was out there in... lessee... June or July of 1973. So do they explain how it came to be so far out of position and no one noticed for this long?

[hegdish]

Sounds like a ploy of some sort. Like now, since NOBODY has ever been to the true four corners, if you want to claim that you've been in four states at once you have to go back and go to the real spot. And they'll probably start charging double.

[sabotlours]

Screw it! I still say that Scruff E and myself were the 1st fursuiters to perform in 4 states at the same time!

[siriuswolfstar]

I could just take retro-payment for your vacation. ;)

[linnaeus]

Aw man! And I almost got away with it! ;)