N 36 36 W 100 - Lipscomb County, Texas
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 36° 26.002 W 100° 00.043
14S E 410302 N 4032482
An invisible line that marks the far NE corner of the Texas Panhandle
Waymark Code: WMTGKA
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/22/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
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County of sign: Liscomb County
Loccation of sign: TX-IK border, NE corner of Panhandle of Texas
Marker erected: 1970
Marker erected by: State Historical Survey Committee

Marker text:

NORTHEAST CORNER OF TEXAS
(3.56 miles north of this marker)
Established by law in 1850 as intersection of 100° longitude and 36° 30' latitude, this point remained in dispute 79 years.

Of some nine surveys made to locate corner on ground, almost none coincided. Even so, three blocks were annexed to Texas from Oklahoma (1903, 1929) - to confusion of landowners. One man claimed he went to bed in Oklahoma and awoke in Texas.

In 1929 U.S. Supreme Court had a final survey run. Some people with land formerly in Oklahoma could not afford to repurchase it in Texas, but exact site of corner was at last determined.

Type of structure: Sign

Difference between the post coordinates and your GPSr reading:
N 00 10.002 W 000 00.043

Reason for the coordinates: Established by law to form state lines
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