Caller: I've bought a lot in Lumpkin Falls and I need it surveyed. How much do you suppose it will cost to mark it out?
Me: Lumpkin Falls? Wow! That brings back memories. In all my years of surveying I've only had one job there and it was for the water plant. That was around 20 years ago. We had to go all over (your non-existent) town to find any survey monuments to start out from.
Caller: So how much do you think it will cost for a survey?
Me: More than you paid for your lot.
Caller: (laughing) I'm pretty sure of that. I paid $5 for the lot.
Not being familiar with the Lumpkin Falls area...was $5 a good deal? 😉
It was a great deal for the guy who unloaded it. There is a mark on the outer wall of the teensy little beer joint/ only place to spend money about 12 feet above ground level that commemorates the water level of the 1951 flood. A couple of blocks to the south is what is left of the concrete structure that was the local high school until 1951.
Lumpkin??? Must have been discovered by an architect.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lumpkin
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Define lumpkin: a clumsy often stupid person : a blundering foolÛÓlumpkin in a sentence.
Holy Cow, post: 369432, member: 50 wrote: ...There is a mark on the outer wall of the teensy little beer joint/ only place to spend money about 12 feet above ground level that commemorates the water level of the 1951 flood..
Years ago I was doing telephone work down South all around the Gulf. Somewhere in the Atchafalaya we ran into an old trestle bridge that a high water mark painted way up top (14 feet or so higher than the deck) near the purlins. The date was something like 1957 or so. What amazed me was there was nothing within 5 miles that even approached that elevation.
This little cracker Okie had a hard time imagining that much water...in Oklahoma you can drive across most of the rivers in August.
FL/GA PLS., post: 369469, member: 379 wrote: Lumpkin??? Must have been discovered by an architect.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lumpkin
MerriamÛÔWebster
Define lumpkin: a clumsy often stupid person : a blundering foolÛÓlumpkin in a sentence.
I mentioned this to my boss...we had a good laugh!! #LUMPKIN
Holy Cow, post: 369421, member: 50 wrote: Caller: I've bought a lot in Lumpkin Falls and I need it surveyed. How much do you suppose it will cost to mark it out?
Me: Lumpkin Falls? Wow! That brings back memories. In all my years of surveying I've only had one job there and it was for the water plant. That was around 20 years ago. We had to go all over (your non-existent) town to find any survey monuments to start out from.
Caller: So how much do you think it will cost for a survey?
Me: More than you paid for your lot.
Caller: (laughing) I'm pretty sure of that. I paid $5 for the lot.
I looked for Lumpkin Falls on google maps and it didn't hit. Is that the name of a town?
Knowing what I know now, if I had a super-cheap lot, I would probably just stake out what I wanted (if I could get in the right area) and declare it mine. It's not worth surveying it. I wonder what the assessor has it valued @.
Well, I must admit that the Falls is correct but the Lumpkin was made up on the spot. I was thinking back to Ray Stevens' song about the Shrine. I believe on one of his phone calls to Coy he referred to himself as the Noble Lumpkin.
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Thanks for straightening me out. Bubba (Ray) was the Lustrous Potentate and Coy was the Noble Lumpkin.
Coy, you the only one got a fez with a propeller on top!
Ray Stevens was one entertainer that would make my dad have to leave the room after 5min because he could not stop laughing.
Dad described him as a gut buster........:good:
Holy Cow, post: 369543, member: 50 wrote: Well, I must admit that the Falls is correct but the Lumpkin was made up on the spot. I was thinking back to Ray Stevens' song about the Shrine. I believe on one of his phone calls to Coy he referred to himself as the Noble Lumpkin.
I get it. I just wanted to see something about the little town. Good made-up name. We do have an equivalent town in CO. called "Punkin Center" (not made up). I found out about it from a couple of fellers what fell off the punkin truck.
If I got the name right from you "clue" it looks like there might be decent farmland and a creek running through it.
[USER=7285]@Tom Adams[/USER]
http://www.legendsofkansas.com/neoshofalls.html
Check out the photos on both pages 1 and 2 for an indication of how well the big city is thriving these days. The "half" building on page 2 is the one with the high water mark up around the beer sign.
Holy Cow, post: 369543, member: 50 wrote: Well, I must admit that the Falls is correct but the Lumpkin was made up on the spot. I was thinking back to Ray Stevens' song about the Shrine. I believe on one of his phone calls to Coy he referred to himself as the Noble Lumpkin.
Since my limited knowledge of Kansas comes from driving though it once and reading this - PrairyErth: A Deep Map, I was going to guess Cottonwood Falls.
Apparently it's the Venice of the plains
A Harris, post: 369560, member: 81 wrote: Ray Stevens was one entertainer that would make my dad have to leave the room after 5min because he could not stop laughing.
Dad described him as a gut buster........:good:
Ray Stevens is from my hometown (or as close to town as I got). He and Ray Charles were both born in Albany, Ga. There is a town in Georgia called Lumpkin too.
Andy
Holy Cow, post: 369564, member: 50 wrote: [USER=7285]@Tom Adams[/USER]
http://www.legendsofkansas.com/neoshofalls.html
Check out the photos on both pages 1 and 2 for an indication of how well the big city is thriving these days. The "half" building on page 2 is the one with the high water mark up around the beer sign.
Thanks for sharing. I guessed wrong. Looking @ googleMaps, it looks like a very green town, with a lot of trees. Not like the typical prairie town in Kansas.
(By the way, I was born in Manhattan, but we only stayed there for a year. Spent most of my Kansas time in Norton until I was about 11)
(I'd pay at least two or three times what that guy paid for a piece of property there.)
@ james fleming
It's the same river system. The Cottonwood River flows through Cottonwood Falls on its way to its junction with the Neosho River at Emporia. The Neosho flows through (and over) Neosho Falls on its way to the Oklahoma border near Chetopa. Those silly Okies think its the Grand River as it goes into Grand Lake.
Holy Cow, post: 369578, member: 50 wrote: @ james fleming
It's the same river system. The Cottonwood River flows through Cottonwood Falls on its way to its junction with the Neosho River at Emporia. The Neosho flows through (and over) Neosho Falls on its way to the Oklahoma border near Chetopa. Those silly Okies think its the Grand River as it goes into Grand Lake.
Nope. Not so.
It is still the Neosho until and after the "Grand Lake O' the Cherokees", then into Lake Hudson, then into Fort Gibson Lake and continuing on into the Arkansas River, which also comes into Oklahoma from Kansas.
It is referred to as being The Grand River Dam controlled by The Grand River Dam Authority. Maybe it changes somewhere in the middle of the lake.;-)
That other river is the Ar-Kansas while it's in Kansas but the Arkansaw elsewhere. Don't tell the people of Ar-Kansas City it's supposed to be Arkansaw City or they'll straighten you out.