Comments on: Strange Maps: Kentucky’s but maybe not? http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/ Taming that torrent of information Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:25:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TJ http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-28935 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:11:10 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-28935 i have been here. i live in kentucky (near Paducah)
you asked, what about school….
lol
did you forget we are talking about kentucky?
it wouldnt matter if there was a school there or not.

]]> By: Enos Shenk http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-27017 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:18:15 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-27017 Heres another interesting one along the Ohio River. Just south of Evansville Indiana, Kentucky owns a small piece of land north of the Ohio River. This is a result from the New Madrid earthquake which shifted the course of the river, but the state boundaries stayed the same.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=37.918404,-87.542324&spn=0.088837,0.117073&z=13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Park_Racecourse

]]> By: Luc V. http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-27000 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:27:02 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-27000 If you’re interested in enclaves, you might want to check out the situation at Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau, on the border between Belgium and Holland. There are 24 Belgian enclaves in Holland, and 7 Dutch enclaves within those Belgian enclaves…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog

]]> By: Steve http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-26986 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:39:52 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-26986 When I worked for the Commonwealth of Kentucky (doing geographic-type stuff) we called it “the raisin.”

]]> By: proudgeek http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-25008 Fri, 23 May 2008 14:22:38 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-25008 Yehuda, there are a good number of enclaves scattered throughout the USA, and I’ve written about some of them (see links below). There are even more along the Mississippi River, and even along the Delaware River on the New Jersey border.

http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/08/09/strange-maps-ellis-island-is-not-quite-in-new-york/
http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/06/strange-maps-border-between-canada-and-usa/

]]> By: yehuda http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-25007 Fri, 23 May 2008 09:11:22 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-25007 Are there any other enclaves of one state in another state in the U.S.?

]]> By: BarthoCR http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-14740 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:02:18 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-14740 Does anyone know why the border between Kentucky and Tennessee is not straight?

]]> By: jj http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-1540 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:13:44 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-1540 Right, I am way way over the hill. No need to participate the College Bowl tourney!

]]> By: proudgeek http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-1488 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:15:17 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-1488 Obviously JJ ain’t gonna win a College Bowl tourney based on his/her interest in geography …

]]> By: jj http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-1487 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:13:36 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/09/strange-maps-kentuckys-but-maybe-not/#comment-1487 What do you care ? I don’t give a dim shit!

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