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To: greeneyes; mrsmith

Question if either of you have any info/observations.

Looking at a map of Red River along the Texas/Oklahoma border it seems to me the
map shows the state boundary varying to both sides of the Red River.

example:
Take the following map and explode it until you get a close up of the Tx/Ok, Red River
area and look at the supposed state boundary.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=burkburnett+tx&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x865328da41927215:0x9e28bfeb2c3286dd,Burkburnett,+TX&gl=us&ei=wAVbU9XrMuvNsQTojoHgCg&ved=0CLUBELYDMBA


49 posted on 04/25/2014 6:05:52 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v002/v002p298.html
“...Red River is an extraordinarily crooked stream with many sharp bends, turns and convoltions; so that the length of the river bounding Oklahoma is 539 miles where in a direct line the distance is but 321 miles. It developed that in times of floods, by the action known as avulsion the river would cut across a bend and make a new channel, and a tract of land formerly north of the river and therefore in Oklahoma would thereafter be south of the river, and vice versa.

The [Supreme] court decided that where intervening changes in the bank have occurred through the natural and gradual processes known as erosion and accretion, the boundary has followed the change; but where the stream left its former channel and made for itself a new one by avulsion, the boundary has not followed the change but has remained on and along what was the south bank before the change occurred. “

Sure does make for a messy border.


51 posted on 04/25/2014 6:19:21 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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