How many of you are finding syringes in the dirt? This one has the cap over the needle, very thoughtful of the scumbag. Dirty world! Jp
A few years ago I had a transmission line survey that penetrated a deep and dark half mile of very urban blight. Wasted syringes were plentiful in every nook and cranny of the alleys and corners. It was a little unnerving. We even found an old recliner where someone had set up their "shooting gallery".
I can deal very well with a sloppy wino, but fired up junkies are flat dangerous. One of the hazards of working in urban areas.
Once or twice I've seen them, not too often though. Worst urban surveying was in the midtown measuring around buildings that winos have used for urinals over the years. I tend to think all the garbage, the homebuilders sand and grass turf over to show their shiny new homes, is pretty sad.
All the time.....tons of them in Newark and Paterson. Now I moved south so I find them in Trenton and Camden instead.....really gross
Anybody want a job to do in Lumpkin Falls? About as far from urban blight as you can get.
Holy Cow, post: 369615, member: 50 wrote: Anybody want a job to do in Lumpkin Falls? About as far from urban blight as you can get.
Google map link please...
Inquiring minds and all want to see where this is.
Latitude:38.006909å¡
Longitude:-95.555942å¡
Yep. Find them all the time.
Holy Cow, post: 369629, member: 50 wrote: Latitude:38.006909å¡
Longitude:-95.555942å¡
I love it how you can see which way the street view car drive by observing the dogs in the picture sequence scrolling along the road.
Not many boundary fences there. I wonder what else they have found to fight about between neighbours?
Holy Cow, post: 369629, member: 50 wrote: Latitude:38.006909å¡
Longitude:-95.555942å¡
I don't know... The streets have numbers (4th, 5th, 6th, etc). That's getting into "urban" territory right there!
Way back when there were 1200 residents instead of 141 things like that had some relevance.
For fun with GE, scroll over a few miles to the east to discover the bustling metropolis of Geneva. It makes Neosho Falls look urban for sure.
Holy Cow, post: 369689, member: 50 wrote: Way back when there were 1200 residents instead of 141 things like that had some relevance.
For fun with GE, scroll over a few miles to the east to discover the bustling metropolis of Geneva. It makes Neosho Falls look urban for sure.
NICE! I want to see the map that gave Geneva 465th, 475th, and 500th Streets.
Reminds me of a couple of little communities out my way. Like the "town" of Ingomar, CA (N37-10-37, W120-58-05). I used to drive through that burg from time to time. Years ago there was a post office and rail stop. Now... A couple of farms.
[USER=6874]@skwyd[/USER]
It works like this. Geneva is in Allen County. North -South county roads are called Streets and East-West county roads are Roads. The county line road just west of Geneva is 200th Street. A mile further east is 400th Street This pattern continues across the county until 5000th Street. So if you had an odd road half way between 200th Street and 400th Street it would be 300th Street. If it was one-quarter of the way it would be 250th Street. If it was thee-quarters of the way it would be 350th Street. Therefore, 500th Street should be on a half mile line midway between 400th Street and 600th Street. This makes 465th and 475th roughly a proportional distance to the east of 400th and west of 500th. Maybe not precisely, but relatively close. A standard parallel cuts across the county with the offset being terribly close to one-half mile. So in the southern part of the county the county line road on the west is 100 Street and on the far east is 4900th Street.
Holy Cow, post: 369741, member: 50 wrote: [USER=6874]@skwyd[/USER]
It works like this. Geneva is in Allen County. North -South county roads are called Streets and East-West county roads are Roads.....
Thanks to the advent of our Statewide 911 system every road (or street) now has a specific name of number. At least one old biddy at a local Registrar-of-Deeds has taken it upon herself to school me on what the county considers PROPER names.
First let me say that around here it had been common practice to have avenues running north and south, and roads (or streets) running east and west. This was adhered to particularly in urban areas. In our rural areas we had no avenues running n-s, just time honored "roads". Cleota Z. Limmenpucker at the courthouse could care less.
One good example is "Cemetery Road". Cemetery Road is a n-s section line that runs unimpeded through the best part of 4 counties and crosses two rivers. Another is Czech Hall Road..a section line road that EVERYBODY knows.
I turned some documents in for recordation and Cleota kicked 'em back to me. My little picture of the section up in the corner labeled "Location Map" showed Cemetery Road. I was informed that all n-s thoroughfares are considered Streets and I should alter my documents if Cleota was going to allow their recordation.
Cemetery Road has been Cemetery Road since probably before Statehood. But arguing with Cleota and her coven of silver haired banshees would be fruitless. I changed my Location Map to read "Cemetery Road Street". It apparently flew....but I'm still looking back over my shoulder....:pinch:
Holy Cow, post: 369741, member: 50 wrote: [USER=6874]@skwyd[/USER]
It works like this. Geneva is in Allen County. North -South county roads are called Streets and East-West county roads are Roads. The county line road just west of Geneva is 200th Street. A mile further east is 400th Street This pattern continues across the county until 5000th Street. So if you had an odd road half way between 200th Street and 400th Street it would be 300th Street. If it was one-quarter of the way it would be 250th Street. If it was thee-quarters of the way it would be 350th Street. Therefore, 500th Street should be on a half mile line midway between 400th Street and 600th Street. This makes 465th and 475th roughly a proportional distance to the east of 400th and west of 500th. Maybe not precisely, but relatively close. A standard parallel cuts across the county with the offset being terribly close to one-half mile. So in the southern part of the county the county line road on the west is 100 Street and on the far east is 4900th Street.
Oh, well that makes sense. Some of the counties around here have a similar convention. Madera County (Calif) is one fairly close to me. The Avenues ran east-west and the Roads ran north-south. However, their numbers incremented once by one each mile (on the section lines). So Avenue 13 is 1 mile north of Avenue 12. I actually have a friend that lives on Avenue 13 1/4 out in the county. It is definitely a system that works out here in PLSS land!
In many counties nearby the named roads increase alphabetically from one side of the county to the other. This works reasonably well if a decent theme is used in the selection of the road names. Animals, for example. Aardvark, Bear, Cougar, Deer, Elephant, etc. County names work very well, with a few exceptions. Anderson, Barton, Chase, Douglas, Elk, Ford, etc. Those silly Allen Countians tried to use states but there are too many letters of the alphabet with no state associated. You leave a county with an excellent system and enter Allen County with Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida...........