Found this on Facebook courtesy of a group identified as Life in West Virginia. Of course, we all know the stone is in the wrong place and the fence post is the true corner.🤣
You Can Stand In Three Different States At Once In Northeastern Central West Virginia
You may have heard of markers around the US where you can stand in two or more states at once, but did you know that there’s one in West Virginia? Few people do. Check out this hidden marker off WV 26 at the PA line. Head east on Virginia Rd about 3/4's of a mile from WV 26 and you’ll be able to see exactly where West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania meet.
Mr. Cow,
I had rarely considered the condition that you mention and I assumed that this was a truly rare occurrence.
I took a peek at that area of the country in Google Earth and I can see maybe a dozen such instances within 500 miles of that location where the same condition occurs.
Is there something unique about the location that you mentioned that I am overlooking?
JA, PLS, SoCal
Most people, including surveyors rarely have an excuse to visit such a marker. Some would fall in the middle of a river, for example. Others might be far from public access
I am probably an exception as I have been to numerous state corners. At some such sites one may be able to see the original corner and the "corrected" corner monument say a quarter-mile apart.
I had a limb of my family tree spend time in West Virginia since the 1740's but no where near this corner.
A while back there was an article in the Oregon Surveyor magazine about visiting the southeast corner of this great state. It is about 100 miles from the nearest pavement, and that in a very remote part of the state. Not a lot of traffic out there.
The only state corner I've visited is the NE corner of Oklahoma / SE corner of Kansas. It's just off the highway between Tulsa and Joplin, MO.
Here is a good one. An international boundary monument near Lynden, WA. The camera is on the Canadian side. For those wondering hardly anyone "jumps the line". It's way too easy to just cross legally at the border station a mile to the west.
The Mason and Dixon line is well marked and preserved.
In central Maryland 4 counties come together at a spring head, now a pond. Somewhere I have a picture.
Raise the door and wait, for as the surface of the pond clears, a boulder becomes visible underwater. Placed in the 1700s and carved with a “P,” it rests against a concrete post that nearly breaks the surface. The post was erected in 1951 by the state, with the initials C, M, H and F on the sides facing Carroll, Montgomery, Howard and Frederick counties.
The northwest corner of my home county is a four corners situation. Four counties meet there. I have used the bar at the corner, in the middle of the road intersection, a few times. On my first visit, the shadows were growing and the hole to the bar was deep. Placed a shiny quarter on top of the bar to improve visibility. Once we finished the job, we returned to the hole, only to discover someone had stolen my quarter. I laughed with my co-worker over how I should report the theft of six and one-quarter cents to each of the four Sherrif offices.
