Posted on 05/29/2016 5:28:45 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Gastonia, N.C. — Several homeowners in South Carolina could become North Carolina residents by Jan. 1, 2017, thanks to a bill to realign the border between the states.
The line between North and South Carolina is not precisely where surveyors drew it the colonial times, so lawmakers in both states are attempting to straighten the line.
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Years ago during our Revolution many of the Loyalists were forced to leave the 13 colonies. They went north towards Canada, especially Toronto and Cornwall. Some of them settled in the islands of the St. Lawrence.
They comfortably settled in thinking they were back safely in the land of George III. Unfortunately the War of 1812 came along. The English lost and the Treaty of Ghent was signed.
Overnight these Loyalists who thought they were safely outside of the rebellious colonies became citizens of the US again. Reading the old census records is interesting. These people, when asked where they were born, sometimes they said Canada and sometimes they said US.
LOL! Jinxed it!
Post 3: Georgia and Tennessee have never completely settled their border either.
Post 4: It’s a good thing they don’t fight about it!
Post 5: Sez the Georgians anxious to steal Tennessee River water.
Actually, that’s sorta the weird thing: The border stays put despite the changing flow of the Mississippi. So you get weird, isolated pockets of Western states on the Eastern side, and Eastern states on the Western side.
Big deal. That happens on every boundary. On the Netherlands/Belgian border, there are enclaves within enclaves within enclaves. An enclave is a region of one country COMPLETELY surrounded by another country. So picture having no way to go to school without going from the Netherlands through Belgium through the Netherlands through Belgium through the Netherlands through Belgium!
Oh good grief! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Is there an actual reason why they would do this? - other than pretty up the map?
I don’t understand why they can’t just zig zag the boundary around the affected properties, and keep each piece of property in the state which it has been in for these past 200 some years. So rather than an exact straight line segment as determined by global positioning systems, the border will vary a few hundred feet here and there, so as to make everyone’s lives easier. What am I missing???
What am I missing???
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LOL! We are all missing a government and bureaucracy with common sense!
Neither has Texas and Oklahoma.
Yeah that’s right. I forgot about the Red River border dispute. Oklahoma has been smoking the medicine pipe on that one though.
It will definitely get their panties in a wad.
>> then there is the issue of spherical geometry <<
And don’t forget about compass errors. I’ve seen colonial-era land surveys that were off as much as thirty degrees from True North — that is, much more than the “normal” magnetic deviation.
(Maybe the errors were sometimes due not only to pure carelessness, but also due to nearby iron-ore deposits?)
>> this is true of a number of state borders around the country <<
Yep, and I remember reading a few years back that the state line between Loudoun Co VA and Berkeley Co WV still had some disputed areas.
“Several homeowners in South Carolina could become North Carolina residents by Jan. 1, 2017,’
Well their property taxes are going up.
ESAD!
There’s a neighborhood on the NC/SC line SW of Charlotte where the kids on one street go to NC schools and the kids on the street over go to SC schools.
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Likewise, I think there are some people who work in Charlotte, but live in SC for the lower taxes.
Absolutely.
There are so many variables to consider:
Magnetic variation that changes with location.
Individual compass deviation.
Local magnetic anomalies.
User error.
There is a long, narrow triangular piece of land near where I grew up that falls between two surveyed properties. The adjacent parcels are supposed to share a common boundary but don't.
The triangular piece of property between them doesn't exist on the records and no one owns it but it is there.
I read somewhere that this is not uncommon on land that was surveyed many years ago before modern tools and techniques were available.
But they’ll get paved roads.
Hey, it ain’t called the Georgia River. Get yer own water !
ESAD!
Your charm knows no bounds.
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