JB's post below about the NC/SC survey got me to thinking about Bristol VA/TN.
That is usually one of my rest and pit stops for road trips to the NE.
I always found it strange to be driving around there and always crossing state lines.
I knew a family who relocated there from upstate NY years ago but I have been out of contact with them for decades.
How do they handle police, fire etc nevermind surveying and planning?
It looks like the state line bisects the city.
It's two separate cities.
State street runs down the state line. I always wondered, if you had the Virginia cops chasing you, and you were westbound on State Street, if you made a U turn would that mean the Virginia cops couldn't chase you anymore, since you wouldn't be in their jurisdiction?
I think they could in fact continue the chase.
It would be considered "in hot pursuit" and keep on giving chase.
However I am curious. Is it really 2 distinct cities?
Was the city established before the state lines were drawn?
I don't know. Just asking.
Here is another one...
Did you all see the show about "How the States Got Their Shape" where they showed the bar that had a state line cut through the middle. Ironically the part of the bar where the bathrooms are reside across the state line and the county in which they fall is dry. You have to leave your drink behind to go wee.
That pose an interesting connundrum (sp?) for someone who gets really drunk but desparately needs to go.
Not likely the cops on the dry side press the issue. I wouldn't if I was the law there.
It is two completely different cities, sort of like Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Virginia.
KCK vs KCMO
There are many adjoining cities along State lines. It is a bit confusing when they have virtually identical names like Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. In that case State Line Road is the aptly named street separating one from the other. I don't know how they decide which municipality maintains which sections of road or if it's truly half and half. Places with rivers make it fairly simple except for a few places where the river moved putting a bit of a State on the opposite side of the current river location.
