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Posted By: JohnInKansas
10-Jun-08 - 05:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
Subject: RE: BS: Latitude 46 -- what is there?
Wichita Kansas has a street named for a meridian of longitude:

Meridian St., a short bit out past the west edge of town when it was surveyed, was supposed to be at longitude 98.

It was surveyed before the town got out there so that it could be a "datum" for laying out all the counties and townships in the area.

As best I can pin it down now, they missed by about 36 miles, but that's not too bad with an 1880s pocket watch for a navigational chronometer I guess.

The main east/west street through town is at about N 37.684 and Meridian St is at about W 97.371, so we're quite a bit south of the N 46 trip line wanted.

John